directly adverb (STRAIGHT)
B1 without anything else being involved or in between:
Our hotel room was directly above a construction site.
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- A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden.
- You will report directly to the boss.
- The drug works more quickly if it is injected directly into the bloodstream.
- She wrote directly to the company manager and persuaded him to give her a job.
- There's a track that leads directly to the reservoir.
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directly adverb (HONEST)
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directly adverb (SOON)
› old-fashioned or formal very soon:
Dr Schwarz will be with you directly.
› old-fashioned immediately:
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- a matter/question of time idiom
- ahead
- all in good time idiom
- anon
- ASAP
- come
- in the fullness of time idiom
- in the long run idiom
- in the short run idiom
- in two shakes (of a lamb's tail) idiom
- later
- long
- long-range
- sometime
- soon
- sooner or later idiom
- the days/week(s)/year(s) to come idiom
- then
- tomorrow
- yet
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› formal immediately after:
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