right away

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Adverb

right away (not comparable)

(idiomatic) Very soon; quickly; immediately.
This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.
(dated) The traditional call to the driver of a train or other conveyance intimating that it is safe to move off immediately.
- 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
  The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.

Synonyms

at once
forthwith
immediately
instantly
now, right now
straight away
tout de suite
without delay

Derived terms

right-away signal

Translations

very soon; immediately

Arabic: فَوْرًا‎ (fawran)
Belarusian: адра́зу (adrázu)
Catalan: en el moment, tot d'una (ca)
Cherokee: ᎲᎴᏊ (hvlequu)
Cheyenne: sé'ea'e
Chinese:
Mandarin: 馬上 (zh), 马上 (zh) (mǎshàng), 立刻 (zh) (lìkè)
Czech: rovnou (cs)
Danish: straks (da)
Esperanto: tuj (eo)
Finnish: oikopäätä, pikimmiten (fi), heti (fi), saman tien
French: tout de suite (fr), sur le champ (fr), séance tenante (fr), aussi sec (fr)
Galician: inmediatamente, deseguida, decontado, axiña
German: sofort (de)
Greek: αμέσως (el) (amésos), τάκα-τάκα (táka-táka)
Hausa: nan take
Hebrew: מיד‎ (he)
Hindi: फ़ौरन (fauran), तुरंत (hi) (turant)
Hungarian: azonnal (hu), rögtön (hu), nyomban (hu), máris
Ido: quik (io)
Ingrian: hetin, järkenää
Interlingua: immediatemente, jam (ia)
Italian: subito (it), immediatamente (it), al più presto
Japanese: すぐ (ja) (sugu)
Korean: 곧 (ko) (got), 즉시 (ko) (jeuksi)
Navajo: haneetehee
Persian: فوراً‎ (fa) (foran), بلافاصله‎ (fa) (belâfâsele)
Plautdietsch: fuaz
Polish: natychmiast (pl)
Portuguese: na hora (pt)
Romanian: imediat (ro), neîntârziat (ro), direct (ro)
Russian: сра́зу (ru) (srázu), сейча́с (ru) (sejčás), сейча́с же (ru) (sejčás že) (emphatic), то́тчас (ru) (tótčas), сию́ мину́ту (ru) (sijú minútu)
Spanish: inmediatamente (es), sin demora, enseguida (es), al tiro (es) (Chile, informal)
Swedish: genast (sv), ögonblickligen (sv), på direkten (sv), på en gång (sv), med en gång (sv)
Tajik: фавран (favran), якбора (tg) (yakbora)
Thai: ทันที (th) (tan-tii), ทันใด (th) (tan-dai)
Turkish: derhal (tr) (derhâl)
Ukrainian: за́раз (uk) (záraz), відра́зу (vidrázu)
Urdu: فوراً‎ (fauran)
Westrobothnian: wä dä sȯmma
Yiddish: תּיכּף‎ (teykef)