expeditious

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21
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23
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11
Pronunciation
/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/

Definition of expeditious

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Fast, prompt, speedy.
    “Near-synonym: expedited”
    “Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody.”
    “An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says.”
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adj

  1. Fast, prompt, speedy.
    “Near-synonym: expedited”
    “Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody.”
    “An “expeditious cessation of hostilities” is essential to “stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or expansion of the war and re-establish strategic stability with Russia”, the document says.”
  2. Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
    “Near-synonym: expedited”
    “As they thus pressed forward, longing doubtless to exchange the easy curving line, which the sinuosities of the bay compelled them to adopt, for a straiter and more expeditious path, though less conformable to the line of beauty, Sir Arthur observed a human figure on the beach advancing to meet them.”
    “Now, there was a sort of rough-and-ready law in Ireland in those days which was of great convenience to persons desirous of expeditious justice[…].”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō.

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