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. Chief Executive Stephen Kavanagh:

   We are looking at the opportunities to extend our network reach. There are markets that Ryanair serves that we don't, so we are having those discussions about what is currently happening on an ad hoc basis, if we get the right price in terms of the capacity from Ryanair, then we would be very interested in doing business. If the commercial agreements are reached in time, then summer 2016 is a possibility.

2. Jeremy Douglas:

   Before, cooperation at the operation level has been pretty ad hoc but now we hope it will be more organized, systematic, and efficient, we have to be on top of the situation. That means good intelligence and good information are necessary.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Muriel Bowser:

   I've asked for the deployment of National Guard as long as we need National Guard to deal with the crisis that we expect to escalate, the number of people crossing the border seeking asylum we expect to only go up. And we need to make sure that there is a national response, not an ad-hoc, city by city, state by state response.