ado
noun/əˈduː/
/əˈduː/
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘action, business’): from northern Middle English at do ‘to do’, from Old Norse at (used to mark an infinitive) and do1.
Idioms Idioms
See ado in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywithout further/more ado
- (old-fashioned) without delaying; immediately
- We set to work without further ado.
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