Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Without delay; quickly.

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  • adverb Quickly, soon, promptly.

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  • adverb in a punctual manner

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, from Latin prōmptus; see prompt.]

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From Spanish pronto

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Examples

  • What Canadians need to know, pronto, is how many were implicated, who they were, and how high up the complicity went.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • What dems need to do pronto is start a movement for a

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Five angry men 2010

  • M. Night delivered his scripts on Sundays because reading his scripts was pleasure, not work, and he sent someone to collect it again pronto, and he was deeply disturbed by the fact that everyone hated the script and that nobody wanted to ask him what it all meant, man.

    Raven In The Water cleolinda 2006

  • They want a really close relationship, but it is true that my agent should be responding to my phone calls pronto, and as soon as you guys get some sort of offer for my house, you have got to pass it through, right?

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2006 2006

  • He calmly took out his hand-kerchief, folding it in his hands, and bound it around his eyes; then, folding his hands in an attitude of prayer, uttered the word "pronto" -- ready.

    Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

  • If this is a indication of what they will do to Marlin, better buy up your lever Marlin pronto.

    Remington Buys Marlin 2008

  • I speed-dialed my pediatrician, who returned my call pronto even though it was a Sunday.

    The Joys of Much Too Much Bonnie Fuller 2006

  • I'm sure if someone else was in his position, especially playing and / or losing against a qualifier, the trainer would have been called pronto for some trumped up malady.

    Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News 2009

  • I'm sure if someone else was in his position, especially playing and / or losing against a qualifier, the trainer would have been called pronto for some trumped up malady.

    Tennis-X.com :: Xtreme Tennis News 2009

  • I just ordered it direct from the publisher www.pspublishing.co.uk. where they promise to ship it, "pronto".

    Joe Hill Tells All 2005

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