posthaste

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We've been told that if the administration's $700 billion bailout plan doesn't pass posthaste, there will be a seize-up of credit markets that will cause a Depression-level crashing of the economy.

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  1. adverb With great speed; rapidly.
  2. noun Archaic Great speed; rapidity.

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  • I emailed him posthaste, told him he won and asked if he could make it May 12.
  • Fetch them for me posthaste, or it's off with your heads for the bloody lot of you Emily chose a muslin shawl from the coat rack and accompanied Nicholas Saleri into the garden. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • They left posthaste, shaking their heads at the madness of Naamah's Servants. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • “You will fly the proper flag And if we do not Then I will open your gates posthaste,” Kalas calmly explained, and he walked out of the room, sweeping up his fellow Allheart in his wake. —  IMMORTALIS
  • If you want the truth about what's unfolding right now in the U.S. financial markets, in Congress and at your very own bank, get your hands on a copy of this revealing Elliott Wave Theorist - posthaste. —  Elliott Wave International NewsWire
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  1. From the phrase haste, post, haste, a direction on letters.
 

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