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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expedite
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ More money would, of course, expedite the construction.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In these circumstances, use of the Collar-Jahn method, described in Chapter 3; may greatly expedite the solution.
▪ Instead, hoping to expedite matters, he squatted down beside them and gave them a hand.
▪ Occasionally he would seek to expedite his victim's demise as best he could.
▪ Still, there are those who originally chose the law as an opportunity to expedite social change.
▪ The panel also called for expediting by five years deployment of a satellite-based computer network for guiding pilots in flight.
▪ The Pentagon doesn't expedite - they demand immediate compliance.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expedite

Expedite \Ex"pe*dite\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expedited; p. pr. & vb. n. Expediting.]

  1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

    To expedite your glorious march.
    --Milton.

  2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

    Such charters be expedited of course.
    --Bacon.

Expedite

Expedite \Ex"pe*dite\, a. [L. expeditus, p. p. of expedire to free one caught by the foot, to extricate, set free, bring forward, make ready; ex out + pes, prdis, t. See Foot.]

  1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.

    To make the way plain and expedite.
    --Hooker.

  2. Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

    Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation.
    --Tollotson.

    Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
    --Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expedite

c.1500 (implied in past participle expedit "accomplished"), from Latin expeditus, past participle of expedire "extricate, disengage, liberate; procure, make ready, put in order, make fit, prepare; explain, make clear," literally "free the feet from fetters," hence to liberate from difficulties, from ex- "out" (see ex-) + *pedis "fetter, chain for the feet," related to pes (genitive pedis) "foot" (see foot (n.)). Compare Greek pede "fetter." Related: Expedited; expediting.

Wiktionary
expedite
  1. 1 Free of impediment; unimpeded. 2 Expeditious; quick; prompt. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To accelerate the progress of. 2 (context transitive English) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

WordNet
expedite
  1. v. speed up the progress of; facilitate; "This should expedite the process" [syn: hasten]

  2. process fast and efficiently; "I will try to expedite the matter"

Usage examples of "expedite".

The bills relating solely to the supply being discussed and expedited, the house proceeded, as usual, to an act other laws for the advantage of the community.

He struck money, conferred titles, blocked up the fortified towns which were held by the Genoese, and amused the people with promises of assistance for about eight months: then, perceiving that they cooled in their affections towards him in proportion as their expectations were disappointed, he left the island, under the plea of expediting himself the succors which he had so long awaited.

Instead, as I recovered my senses, I realized the driver had placed my luggage outside the taxi and was standing holding the passenger door open, not, I hasten to add, in any spirit of flunkeydom but merely to expedite my exit.

Taking the president at face value to disclose what was available, Mikva decided that he would try to expedite the Starr investigation as much as possible.

I suggest that a call to Alien Relations on Shola might expedite the situation?

To expedite the extraction, she drew out an arm and amputated it, and finding the extraction still difficult, she cut off the head and completely emptied the womb, including the placenta.

Expedited Analysis, Kelly-Holmes Approximation Method: Subject does not possess and does not believe in the Search Object.

As with many such petitions, mine recited that the defendant was being unjustly held, that the defendant was innocent, that hitherto unknown exculpatory evidence had recently come to light, and that the interests of justice would best be served by an expedited hearing on same.

Third, with the Intendant-General, to expedite the reorganisation and modernisation of the rearward services of supply, movement, and repairs.

Emperor Maximilian promised his aid to the pope, and in order to expedite matters, the latter changed the summons to Rome to a citation before Cajetan at Augsburg, at the same time instructing the legate to seize the heretic if he did not recant.

In the spring the warship, Tsar Alexandre, will arrive with your replacement for the Japans, and then carry you and your entourage to our Alaskan capital Sitka where you will be in residence for at least two years to expedite Friendship.

After taking the quickest shower on record--scenes from the movie Psycho kept running through her mind, which greatly expedited the proceedings--in the second bathroom, she toweled off, stepped into her own undies, and pulled on a lemon yellow T-shirt dress with a big pink rose on the front of it.

Yet neither King Agamemnon nor his sagest counselors could devise an effective system for expediting their messages.

Princess, rest assured that we value the expediting of your mission above all things, may our dinars decrease if we do not, but this task of which I speak is urgent, under the circumstance, though it is but a small matter.

After the initial round of threats, White Castle often helped the imitators by paying for new signs or architecture modifications, in order to expedite the change.