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Term: immediately
Definition: Immediately means right away or without delay. It can also mean that something needs to be done as soon as possible, without any excuses or delays.
Definition: Immediately is an adverb that means something should be done at once or without delay. In legal terms, it means "as soon as can be done" without any excuses.
The first two examples illustrate the general meaning of immediately, which is to do something without delay. In the third example, immediately is used in a legal context to mean that the company must pay the fine as soon as possible without any excuses.