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At once   /æt wəns/   Listen
At once

adverb
1.
Without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening.  Synonyms: directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway.  "Found an answer straightaway" , "An official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith" , "Come here now!"
2.
Simultaneously.  Synonyms: at a time, at one time.



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"At once" Quotes from Famous Books



... shrinking from going closer, now that he felt less sure, in dread lest he should seem to be acting the part of spy upon two strangers; while if it were they it would be madness to speak. There was only one thing to be done: warn Brettison, and get their charge away at once. ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn

... apply at once. I can give every qualification, even to a civil service examination. Cora, I ...
— The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay - The Secret of the Red Oar • Margaret Penrose

... gilt, so that it resembled jewels set in gold. An easy imitation of this was by painting the hollows and ridges, and the crossing lines of the setting soon look like a net over the capital. We are at once reminded of the "net work" on the capitals of Solomon, and see in these columns ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various

... and unscrupulous writers in Blackwood, started in 1817. Lockhart, who had cruelly maligned Leigh Hunt and his set (the "Cockney School," as the Scotch Tories chose to call them), was sharply attacked in the London. Fiery and vindictive Lockhart flew at once up to town, and angrily demanded from Mr. Scott, the editor, an explanation, an apology, or a meeting. Mr. Scott declined giving an apology unless Mr. Lockhart would first deny that he was editor of Blackwood. Lockhart refused to give this denial, and ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... order and to do it my work. You give me Rupee at once. Then I will write it on my book, from which you will see it is right or wrong. Now I am going to Cashmir with you and Cashmiree ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne


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