right away

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Adverb

right away (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Very soon; quickly; immediately.

   This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.

2. (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／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)
• Yiddish: תּיכּף‎ (teykef)