Usually means: Occurring or done without delay.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word immediate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. immediate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. immediate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. immediate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. immediate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. immediate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Immediate, immediate: Wordnik
  7. immediate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. immediate: Wiktionary
  9. immediate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. immediate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. immediate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. immediate: Dictionary.com
  13. immediate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. immediate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Immediate, The Immediate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Immediate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. immediate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. immediate: Rhymezone
  19. immediate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. immediate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. immediate: Free Dictionary
  22. immediate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. immediate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. immediate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. immediate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. immediate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. immediate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. immediate: Idioms

(Note: See immediates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
adjective:  Very close; direct or adjacent.
adjective:  Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
adjective:  (computer science, of an instruction operand) Embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location).
adjective:  (procedure word, military) Used to denote that a transmission is urgent.
adjective:  (procedure word, military) An artillery fire mission modifier for two types of fire mission to denote an immediate need for fire: Immediate smoke, all guns involved must reload smoke and fire. Immediate suppression, all guns involved fire the rounds currently loaded and then switch to high explosive with impact fused (unless fuses are specified).

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