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English to English adjective
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Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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according to schedule or without delay; on time | | Example: the train is prompt
source: wordnet30
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ready and willing or quick to act | | Example: she is always prompt to help her friends
source: wordnet30
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performed with little or no delay | | Example: an immediate reply to my letter
a prompt reply
was quick to respond
a straightaway denial
source: wordnet30 noun
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a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | | Example: the audience could hear his prompting
source: wordnet30
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(computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command | | source: wordnet30
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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. | | source: webster1913 verb
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give an incentive for action | | Example: This moved me to sacrifice my career
source: wordnet30
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serve as the inciting cause of | | Example: She prompted me to call my relatives
source: wordnet30
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assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | | source: wordnet30
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To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. | | source: webster1913
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