in short order
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a speedy manner; with dispatch; quickly.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "She was scandalised by my suggestion that she should have bought the other three seats, in order to use the table as an office space. Her solution was that I should go and sit elsewhere. Her appeal to the ticket inspector/guard was rebuffed in short order."