NOW

  1. (acronym) .  National Organization for Women.
  2. Adjective.  Present; current.
  3. Adjective.  (informal) Fashionable; popular.
  4. Adverb.  At the present time.
  5. Adverb.  (context, sentence) (non-gloss definition, Used to introduce a point, a remonstration or a rebuke.) .
  6. Adverb.  Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
  7. Adverb.  Differently from the situation before a (stated or implied) event or change of circumstance.
  8. Adverb.  At the time reached within a narration.
  9. Adverb.  In the context of urgency.
  10. Conjunction.  since, because, in light of the fact.
  11. Interjection.  Indicates a signal to begin.
  12. Noun.  (uncountable) The present time.

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