fast-moving

See also: fastmoving

English

Adjective

fast-moving (comparative faster-moving, superlative fastest-moving)

  1. Moving rapidly.
    • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:
      Most of the "railroad" films of the next decade were suspense features exploiting the dramatic quality of the fast-moving train in danger or[sic] threatening the beautiful heroine tied to the permanent way by the villains.
    • 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 343:
      As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
  2. Being a situation in which events follow each other in quick succession.
  3. That is sold quickly.
    fast-moving consumer goods

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