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in shortest order

in shortest order is the superlative form of in short order.

Meaning of in short order

Adverb

in short order (comparative in shorter order, superlative in shortest order)

  1. In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
    • But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.2014 February 7, Zachary Woolfe, “For a Sage Tenor, It’s All in the Timing”, in New York Times

Questions about in shortest order

What is in shortest order the superlative form of?
In shortest order is the superlative form of in short order.

Words near in shortest order in the dictionary

  1. in short order
  2. in short pants
  3. in short supply
  4. in short trousers
  5. in shorter order
  6. in shortest order
  7. in sickness and in health
  8. in sight
  9. in silence
  10. in silhouette
  11. in silico

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in shortest order (page history and authors); in short order (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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