in short order

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in short order

adverb in shorter order · in shortest order

  1. In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly. But it may be just as much of one for the opera house administrators who have come to depend on him as a box-office draw, and for the international audiences that in remarkably short order — less than a decade, really — have embraced him as the most important, versatile tenor of his generation.

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adv quickly

Italianovelocemente, rapidamente

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@misc{in_short_order_2026,
  title = {in short order},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/in%20short%20order},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}