ADJECTIVE
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for or concerned with one specific purpose
a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions -
often improvised or impromptu
an ad hoc committee meeting
ADVERB
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for one specific case
they were appointed ad hoc
How To Use ad hoc In A Sentence
- The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
- But it is no longer entirely ad hoc. Times, Sunday Times
- A sword is not, however, in virtue of the meaning of the word ˜sword™, a phase of anything, and to use the term to name a phase of something in a given case, when it suits, is ad hoc. Substance
- He should set up a monthly direct debit of an amount that he is happy to pay and add ad hoc single premiums. Times, Sunday Times
- By the time they had shared an ad hoc hot tub together, it was clear our host had gone completely feral. Times, Sunday Times
- Problems were solved on an ad hoc basis.
- Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back. Libya: Moving targets | Editorial
- [128] "Prorsus si Dei adjutorium defuerit, nihil boni agere poteris; agis quidem illo non adjuvente libera voluntate, sed male; ad hoc idonea est voluntas tua quae vocatur libera, et male agendo fit damnabilis ancilla. Pneumatologia
- This is an ad hoc committee specially established to deal with a particular subject.
- Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.