Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - immediate

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. An immediate result, action, or reaction happens or is done without any delay. These tragic incidents have had an immediate effect... My immediate reaction was just disgust. = instant ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Immediate needs and concerns exist at the present time and must be dealt with quickly. Relief agencies say the immediate problem is not a lack of food, but transportation. = pressing ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. The immediate person or thing comes just before or just after another person or thing in a sequence. His immediate superior, General Geichenko, had singled him out for special mention. ADJ: ADJ n 4. You use immediate to describe an area or position that is next to or very near a particular place or person. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity... ADJ: ADJ n 5. Your immediate family are the members of your family who are most closely related to you, for example your parents, children, brothers, and sisters. ADJ: ADJ n