Synonyms for ad hoc
æd ˈhɒk, ˈhoʊkad hoc

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1. ad hocadjective

   often improvised or impromptu

   "an ad hoc committee meeting"

   Antonyms:
   planned, general, nonspecific

2. ad hocadverb

   for or concerned with one specific purpose

   "a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions"

   Antonyms:
   planned, nonspecific, general

3. ad hocadverb

   for one specific case

   "they were appointed ad hoc"

   Antonyms:
   planned, general, nonspecific

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1. Elizabeth Randol:

   They're [state legislature] sort of guilty of serial over-criminalization. They continue to pass ad hoc bills that could criminalize behavior that could already be charged under the current statute, yes it's responding to a tragedy … a tragedy does not mean that there are no tools available to hold people accountable in those cases.

2. Jesse Binnall:

   It is abundantly clear that the government intended to conduct an end-run around the administrative injunction by producing alternate copies of documents that, even under the government’s incorrect interpretation of the administrative injunction, would violate its unambiguous terms, under no circumstances should the government’s misconduct and attempt to create an ad hoc record be sanctioned by this Court.

3. Philip Greenspun:

   Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

4. Technology Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz:

   It is highly probable that by 2020 and beyond, energy prices will not go down and other solutions than ad hoc cuts need to be sought because the spectrum of available instruments is limited, this is why we prepared a program for the development of prosumer energy.

5. Khurram Husain:

   This is such an ad hoc manner to deal with a problematic entity, without any sense of the big picture, you can't have major economic decision-making coloured by political considerations like this.