in short order

1. 1.

   with speed

   “he works quickly”

   “John got ready in short order”

   Synonymsquicklyrapidlyspeedilychop-chopapace

Questions about in short order

What does in short order mean?

in short order means "with speed".

What is another word for in short order?

Close synonyms include quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in short order a common word?

in short order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.