Immediate

Definition

immediate / Ç'mi:diǝt / adj ၁။ (က) ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ လက္ငင္း။ I want an immediate reply. ❍ The response of the people to the famine appeal was immediate. ❍ take immediate action. (ခ) လက္ငင္း။ Our immediate concern is for the families of those who died. ၂။ ေလာေလာဆယ္။ အနီးဆံုး။ အရင္းဆံုး။ What are your plans for the immediate future? ❍ There’s no post office in the immediate neighbourhood. ❍ his immediate predecessor ❍ She only told her immediate family (eg her parents, husband, children, brothers and sisters). ၃။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ The immediate cause of death is unknown. ❑ immediacy / -ǝsi / n [U] နီးစပ္မႈ။ အနီးကပ္။ လတ္တေလာ ျဖစ္မႈ။ the immediacy of the war, as seen on television ❍ the immediacy of the problem. ❑ immediately adv ၁။ ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးျခင္း မရိွဘဲ။ She answered almost immediately. ❍ The point of my question may not be immediately apparent. ၂။ ၿပီးၿပီးခ်င္း။ ကပ္လ်က္။ in the years immediately after the war ❍ fix the lock immediately below the handle. ၃။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ the buildings most immediately affected by the bomb blast. — conj ( esp Brit ) ခ်က္ခ်င္း။ တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္။ I recognized her immediately I saw her.

Examples

1. Our government must take immediate action.
2. The rebels demanded the immediate release of the prisoners.
3. Restrictions on advertising had an immediate impact on rates of teenage smoking.
4. [with immediate effect] : I handed in my resignation
5. with immediate effect.
6. My immediate response was to say yes.
7. The announcement brought immediate denunciation from environmental bodies.
8. There doesn’t seem to be any immediate danger.
9. The French threat was the most immediate and damaging.
10. In the immediate prewar period
11. [immediate aftermath] : Terrible pictures of the immediate aftermath of the earthquake
12. [the immediate future] : The two men have different plans for the immediate future.
13. Our immediate aim is to qualify for next year’s finals.
14. She is my immediate superior (=the person directly in charge of me).
15. Members of the President’s immediate entourage
16. [immediate family] : People who have immediate family on the plane are asked to contact this number.
17. [immediate vicinity] : There are several pleasant walks in the immediate vicinity.