Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To expedite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To expedite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To hasten; to expedite.
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- adjective obsolete
expeditious - verb Common misconstruction of
expedite . - verb rare, historical To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I am sure that a government intelligence agency could expediate the process for someone becoming a citizen by talking with immigration.
Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: We come to bury 'SVU,' not to praise it | EW.com 2009
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So yes, it is a tax issue (these things are best not thought of, they can expediate teh hair loss process, and what probably happened to Arnold)
Do Sports Franchises Make Money?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Speaker of the House John Boehner talking after the House passed a bill to expediate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project.
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As well we have McCallum in Ottawa today saying that the Libs may withdraw their support for the budget because of the 3 billion dollar fund to expediate projects.
Lucky For Canada That Harper Was Wrong « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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Intellecap started up in 2003, with the aim to create and deliver mainstream, profitable solutions to address the problems of poverty and expediate sustainable development.
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The Livingston, NJ post office has an official sign alerting customers that they can “expediate” renewal of passports for an increased fee.
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Perception of this is that Council merely rubber stamped it so they could expediate the 2 day budget process in December.
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Do nothing else besides expediate building permits.
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If these observations confirm that the vessel is in the advance semicircle of the storm state, making reference to the vessel schedule, the action that the Master should take to expediate the voyage.
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Errecting a latticework of weather control systems to expediate the process and make the planet more hospitable.
nessus Diary Entry nessus 2005
thesaraheffect commented on the word expediate
common mispronunciation of "expedite"
verb, infinitive
To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
September 16, 2009