soon (sooner comparative) (soonest superlative )
1 adv If something is going to happen soon, it will happen after a short time. If something happened soon after a particular time or event, it happened a short time after it.
You'll be hearing from us very soon...
2 If you say that something happens as soon as something else happens, you mean that it happens immediately after the other thing.
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as soon as phrase
As soon as relations improve they will be allowed to go...
3 If you say that you would just as soon do something or you'd just as soon do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
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would just as soon/'d just as soon phrase
These people could afford to retire to Florida but they'd just as soon stay put... MODAL inf