Ad hoc
ad hoc (adjective) - not planned in advance, makeshift, not well-planned
ad hoc solutions
ad hoc remedies
ad hoc agreements
an ad hoc group
an ad hoc committee
commissioned an ad hoc group to study the matter
committees constituted ad hoc for a special purpose
ad hoc coalitions
ad hoc studies
ad hoc recommendations
an ad hoc study commissioned by a government agency
provide ad hoc advice
software produces ad hoc reports
ad hoc meetings and working parties
members who are not party to the ad hoc arrangement
ad hoc methods
not left to be resolved in an ad hoc fashion
make ad hoc arrangements
ad hoc solutions to a problem
done on an ad hoc basis
reacting on an ad hoc basis
developed on an ad hoc basis
pay various ad hoc amounts as the need arose
ad hoc modifications
not modified according to any consistent principle, but by a variety of ad hoc remedies
working committee appears to have remained an ad hoc body with a finite life
ad hoc conditions
appointed on a systematic rather than ad hoc basis
an ad hoc basis
arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis
chosen on an ad hoc basis
concluding appropriate agreements ad hoc, quite possibly under the pressure of burgeoning dispute between the partners
Example sentences:
* Their methods are often somewhat ad hoc.
* Independent PR consultants usually specialise in a particular class of business, and clients can take advantage of this for ad hoc, or short-term assignments.
* The provisions and conditions that he adds to the agreement in order to rule out such possibilities are as clumsy and ad hoc as the questions that they aim to answer, at least to the non-logician.
* This suggests that such firms are reacting on a more ad hoc basis to pressure in the market, the report says.
A6F 751 It is the scale of her interest in the work of other departments and working with ad hoc groups, that makes her distinctive.
* Yes, came the resounding answer last week from an ad hoc group of America's leading economists.
* While utilizing the existing Emergencies Committee, he commissioned an ad hoc group, GEN 496, on economic aspects of the emergency, under Bridges.
* Other courses have developed on an ad hoc basis to meet the learning requirements of trained nurses.
* Select committees, committees constituted ad hoc for a special purpose, an unusual step in the case of Public Bills.
* Increasingly it becomes clear that her plight was the result of her poor health; in addition to the regular help she was receiving, the overseers had the generosity to pay her various ad hoc amounts as the need arose.
* The FA's commercial director Trevor Phillips said: I am looking to end this deal with Watershed, tighten up the release of film, which will help prevent such ad hoc videos being made.
the American administration's ad hoc knee-jerk set of reactions that passes for their foreign policy
* But that's perfectly OK for the American administration's ad hoc knee-jerk set of reactions that passes for their foreign policy.
* Thus, the dictionary text should have sufficient structure so that ad hoc generation of lists or concordances would not prove to be a difficult or lengthy task for a competent programmer.
* They were not, however, modified according to any consistent principle, but by a variety of ad hoc remedies.
* Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations: naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions.
* This working committee appears to have remained an ad hoc body with a finite life, rather than a major standing committee in the school management structure.
* Any decision is permissible as long as it is not ad hoc.
* Indeed, there is now a tendency for select committees to show some greater independence of spirit, particularly since 1979 when they were first appointed on a systematic rather than an ad hoc basis.
* One of the crucial issues, to which the creation of ad hoc agencies in the United States is a response, is the problem, at all levels but particularly at local level, of overlapping governments.
* Databases of ad hoc epidemiological studies and of the Hungarian congenital abnormality registry.
* Obviously I can have ad hoc conversations with different groups, and I'll I'm very happy to do that.
* Sometimes carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, sometimes by chartered accountants, they were ad hoc studies commissioned by the Secretary of State.
* Currently, the TUC's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives' courses, not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues.
* In addition to providing this overall service, we may provide ad hoc advice to vendors in the following areas.
* However, such an agreement should not prejudice other Network members who are not party to the ad hoc arrangement.
* Computer applications have tended to be ad hoc, with software generally written in-house.
* In the absence of such agreement, the partners will be faced with the unattractive alternatives of: (1) concluding appropriate agreements ad hoc, quite possibly under the pressure of burgeoning dispute between the partners; or (2) accepting regulation of the affairs of the firm under the Partnership Act which will ensure that where agreement proves impossible dissolution will follow.
* Special ad hoc arrangements should then be made to compensate those partners whose age has prevented them from extracting the maximum benefit from the changes in fiscal legislation.
* This should be decided in the context of the firm's overall strategic thinking and not left to be resolved ad hoc.
