expeditious
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7.8
- adjective
- /ˌɛkspəˈdɪʃəs/
:
rápido
- The organization aims to provide expeditious service to its clients, ensuring quick resolutions to their issues.
- in an expeditious manner
- effective and expeditious
- more expeditious
In fact, seeing the truth when you can't leave will often result in giving in on some of their BS because it's simply more expeditious to give in.
- In fact, seeing the truth when you can't leave will often result in giving in on some of their BS because it's simply more expeditious to give in.
- So we're going to experience this Immaculate expeditious healing on this couch.
Examples
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This will help to make the proceedings more expeditious.
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An accurate class division at the outset will make for a more expeditious trial in the long run.
Academic text (1990) -
I will see to it that everything is done in the most expeditious manner.
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The girls found it profitable to make an expeditious decision.
Fiction book (1997) -
Quietly telling the student that his or her behavior is inappropriate may be the most expeditious way to address the problem.
Academic text (2001) -
The pressure mounted for more expeditious FDA review processes during the 1990s, especially from industry.
Academic text (2018) -
We have a comparatively cheap and expeditious highway to market.
Academic text (2007) -
The easiest, least expensive, most expeditious way to accomplish this would be to construct very large solar installations.
Blog text (21) -
In Phuket, dental identification proved to be expeditious, accurate, and cost-effective.
Academic text (2007) -
The team completed the project in an expeditious manner, meeting the tight deadline without compromising quality.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Moving or happening quickly
∞
1.0
Happening or done very fast without delay
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1.3
Happening at once without any delay
424
3.0
Able to do tasks well and quickly without wasting time or energy
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2.0
Happening right away and needing action now
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1.8
Moving or happening very quickly with little delay
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5.1
Happening right away without any delay
That makes a course or program go faster so people finish sooner
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expeditious comes from the Latin expedire, which meant 'to free the feet' and is made from ex- 'out' and ped- 'foot', and you can see the same root in pedal and expedite. So, expeditious means done quickly and efficiently.