promptness (noun)

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• promptness — prompt prompt 1 [prɒmpt ǁ prɑːmpt] adjective done quickly, immediately, or at the right time: • We guarantee prompt delivery of your purchases. • Many customers are taking advantage of a 2.5% discount for prompt payment. promptly adverb : •… …   Financial and business terms

• promptness — prompt ► VERB 1) cause or bring about. 2) (prompt to/to do) cause (someone) to take a course of action. 3) assist or encourage (a hesitating speaker). 4) supply a forgotten word or line to (an actor). ► NOUN 1) an act of prompting …   English terms dictionary

• promptness — noun see prompt III …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• promptness — noun /ˈprɒmptnəs/ a) The habit or characteristic of doing things without delay. b) The habit of adhering to a designated time. Syn: promptitude, punctuality …   Wiktionary

• promptness — noun 1. the characteristic of doing things without delay • Syn: ↑promptitude • Derivationally related forms: ↑prompt • Hypernyms: ↑celerity, ↑quickness, ↑rapidity, ↑rapidness …   Useful english dictionary

• prompt — ▪ I. prompt prompt 2 noun [countable] COMPUTING a sign on a computer screen which shows that the computer has finished one operation and is ready to begin the next: • When you see the C prompt, type WP .   [m0] ▪ II. prompt prompt 1 [prɒmpt ǁ… …   Financial and business terms

• promptly — prompt prompt 1 [prɒmpt ǁ prɑːmpt] adjective done quickly, immediately, or at the right time: • We guarantee prompt delivery of your purchases. • Many customers are taking advantage of a 2.5% discount for prompt payment. promptly adverb : •… …   Financial and business terms

• prompt — verb 1》 cause or bring about.     ↘(prompt someone to/to do something) cause someone to take a course of action. 2》 assist or encourage (a hesitating speaker).     ↘supply a forgotten word or line to (an actor). noun 1》 an act of prompting a… …   English new terms dictionary

• prompt — I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin promptare, from Latin promptus prompt Date: 14th century 1. to move to action ; incite 2. to assist (one acting or reciting) by suggesting or saying the next words of something… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• dispatch — I (act of putting to death) noun act of killing, act of slaying, assassination, bloodshed, death by violence, deathblow, destruction, disposal, doing away with, execution, extermination, homicide, killing, liquidation, massacre, murder II… …   Law dictionary

• prompt — 1 verb 1 (T) to make someone decide to do something, especially something that they had been thinking of doing: prompt sb to do sth: Her situation prompted me to do something about getting a new job. 2 to make people say or do something as a… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English