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- noun Alternative spelling of
ad hocery .
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Examples
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What top aides are now saying in the west wing here is basically they're tired of the ad-hockery that was going on.
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He engages in legal ad-hockery and trickery, treats Congress as a nuisance rather than a partner, and circumvents outmoded laws and treaties when he should be creating new ones.
Unwinding Bush 2006
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He engages in legal ad-hockery and trickery, treats Congress as a nuisance rather than a partner, and circumvents outmoded laws and treaties when he should be creating new ones.
Unwinding Bush 2006
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It's becoming obvious that we need a coherent long-term plan for what to do about prolonged joblessness, instead of continual ad-hockery.
MSN Money Finance Tips U.S. News 2010
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It's becoming obvious that we need a coherent long-term plan for what to do about prolonged joblessness, instead of continual ad-hockery.
MSN Money Finance Tips U.S. News 2010
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Regarding “I’m not exactly sure right now how you would properly model this sort of bizarre ad-hockery in a F-test” I thought you were suggesting a Chow test for structural change in 1750.
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I’m not exactly sure right now how you would properly model this sort of bizarre ad-hockery in a F-test, but intuitively the gain in R2 seems too small to pass any sort of test.
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