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ad hoc

adjective as in for a specific purpose

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Congress keeps funding it ad hoc—but when the GOP takes over the Senate next year, who knows.

An ad hoc network, Bibles, Badges & Business, represents the diversity of the pro-reform lobby.

The ad hoc granular alliances described in Unstoppable promise less but may achieve more.

During the dozen years or so since the R2P concept was formulated, its application has been complicated and ad hoc.

The stones had been pulled up to create ad-hoc fortifications around the Maidan.

Francisco Manrique de Lara, Episcopo, ex vetere ad hoc templum facta translatio xxv.

An ad hoc bipartisan conference called a session of the Senate and the Senate elected a new president.

The witnesses against him were two forgers, released ad hoc from prison, his own witnesses were hundreds.

No elaboration of statute law can forestall variant cases and the need of interpretation ad hoc.

To establish an international court ad hoc, in the middle of the war, and ask it to settle the new questions as they arise?

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ad hoc, such as: impromptu, provisional, special, specific, and specified.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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