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Straightaway   /strˈeɪtəwˌeɪ/   Listen
Straightaway

adjective
1.
Performed with little or no delay.  Synonyms: immediate, prompt, quick.  "A prompt reply" , "Was quick to respond" , "A straightaway denial"






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"Straightaway" Quotes from Famous Books



... like seams in a well-sewn garment, the sun, even at this distance, striking a sheen from the golden dome of the capitol building. Higher! The chortling truck gasped at the curves and tugged on the straightaway, but Robert Fairchild had ceased to hear. His every attention was centered on the tremendous stage unfolded before him, the vast stretches of the plains rolling away beneath, even into Kansas and Wyoming and Nebraska, hundreds of miles away, ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper



Words linked to "Straightaway" :   section, segment, stretch, fast



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