ad hoc
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7.0
- adjective
- /æd hɑk/
:
ad hoc
- Due to the lack of a formal plan, the team worked in an ad hoc manner to resolve the project's challenges.
- an ad hoc commission
- an ad hoc committee
- on an ad hoc basis
And so it's really ad hoc and it's not systematic.
- And so it's really ad hoc and it's not systematic.
- It's rather ad hoc, but this actually isn't my main problem.
- Therefore, these these second point is that all options are on the table, including ad hoc decisions.
- Do they need to do clock distribution or are they doing more ad hoc parallel, like concurrent programming, like there's some kind of locking mechanisms or something?
Examples
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The church-state problems surface in how the ad hoc committee did its work.
Academic text (1990) -
Multilateral conventions are adopted by an ad hoc conference of plenipotentiaries.
Academic text (1990) -
This is an ad hoc motion.
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Israel and the PA meet on an ad hoc basis or through third parties.
Academic text (2011) -
Changing the law for the reserves is an ad hoc response to a failed policy.
Academic text (2015) -
Beyond those Great Books programs in formal school settings, ad hoc programs exist in various locations nationwide.
Academic text (1991) -
Multinational forces are often created with a sense of urgency to deal with ad hoc problems.
Academic text (1999) -
Waterfall itself was a response to ad hoc methods used in this field's pioneering era.
Academic text (2017) -
Such things as peer discipline, employee councils, and a range of ad hoc employee committees are very tentative steps.
Academic text (1990) -
The committee created an ad hoc group to address the urgent issues that had arisen from the recent disaster.
Synonyms
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4.8
Used for a short time when you have no better choice
37
6.3
Done or said without preparation
1
4.6
Made quickly using what is available
1
7.7
Happens without planning, often on the spot
1
7.7
Says or does something without planning
1
8.5
Acting on instinct rather than careful planning
Happening without much planning
Antonyms
How Planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
ad + hoc
Ad hoc is a borrowed Latin phrase (ad + hoc) whose constituents are not English lexical items that a B1 learner will typically know, so its meaning 'for a particular purpose' cannot be derived from familiar English words. Although the literal Latin 'to this' loosely relates to 'for this purpose', the expression is conventionalized as a fixed loanword in English and therefore is not transparently compositional for typical learners.
Etymology
Ad hoc: The adjective ad hoc comes from Latin words ad 'to' and hoc 'this'. So it describes something made for one special purpose and not planned before.