Antonym: mediate. Similar words: media, medium, medical, radiation, medication, negotiate, initiate, associate. Meaning: [ɪ'mɪːdɪət] 
adj. 1. very close or connected in space or time 2. having no intervening medium 3. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect 4. of the present time and place 5. performed with little or no delay.
adj. 1. very close or connected in space or time 2. having no intervening medium 3. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect 4. of the present time and place 5. performed with little or no delay. 
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(241) Following an hourlong hearing, a three-member panel of judges took no immediate action on the lawsuit.
(242) They say they now want their employers to take immediate action.
(243) You might have thought that, in the abstract, the immediate prospect was attractive.
(244) The widening of educational opportunity in the immediate post-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content.
(245) A more immediate concern is the danger that a monumental scientific advance could be commercialised.
(246) Qiao Shi, the intelligence chief who had abstained in the martial law vote earlier, endorsed an immediate army crackdown.
(247) Few in the scientific community would argue that the scientific evidence justifies immediate extremely drastic action.
(248) Furthermore, it had been alarmed at local initiatives taken in the immediate aftermath of the June war.
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