express

CEFRB1

/ɪkˈspɹɛs/

verb · adjective · noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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I gave him express instructions not to begin until I arrived, but he ignored me.
In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed more express and single, than the imperfect and divided countenance.
This book cannot be copied without the express permission of the publisher.

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Soon as the potion works, their human countenance, / The express resemblance of the gods, is changed / Into some brutish form, of wolf, or bear, / Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat, / All other parts remaining as they were[…]
1634, John Milton, edited by Homer Sprague, The Mask of Comus, New York: J. W. Schermerhorn & Co., published 1876, page 253
The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.
1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
Except for the mid-winter period, when the 11.30 a.m. from Paddington and its opposite number will be withdrawn - Torquay now has seven daily expresses to and from Paddington as compared with five down and six up previously.
1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590
This is also a TransPennine Express service which makes a mockery of the word 'express'.
2023 November 1, Philip Haigh, “TPE must choose the right route to a brighter future”, in RAIL, number 995, page 56
"Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.
1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

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From French exprès, from Latin expressus, past participle of exprimere (see Etymology 2, below).