alacrity

action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).

do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).

doing; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in operation.

in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.

haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitiousness; impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush (violence); express., bestir oneself (be active); lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way., be precipitate; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry; have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time., quicken; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.

hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing., in haste, in a hurry; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.

with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste; apace (swiftly); amain; all at once (instantaneously); at short notice, immediately (early) [more]; posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches., hastily, precipitately; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu., by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.

willingness, voluntariness; willing mind, willing heart., disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent (turn of mind); penchant (desire); aptitude., docility, docibleness; persuasibleness, persuasibility; pliability (softness)., geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness; eagerness (desire)., asset; compliance; pleasure (will); gratuitous service., labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.

be willing; incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire., see fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce (assent); comply with., swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway; volunteer.

willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable; favorably-minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed; nothing loth; in the vein, in the mood, in the humor, in the mind., ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon (desirous); predisposed, propense., docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easygoing; tractable (pliant); genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty; content (assenting)., voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked (ask [more]); unforced (free).

willingly; fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms; with good will, with right will; de bonne volonte, ex animo; con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace., a la bonne heure; by all means, by all manner of means; to one's heart's content; yes (assent).