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expeditious
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expeditious \Ex`pe*di"tious\, a. Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.
Syn: Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See Prompt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., expedycius "useful, fitting," from Latin expeditus "disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered," past participle of expedire (see expedite). Meaning "speedy, speedily accomplished" is from 1590s. Related: Expeditiously; expeditiousness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 fast, prompt, speedy. 2 (context of a process or thing English) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitate speed.
WordNet
adj. characterized by speed and efficiency [syn: prompt, timesaving]
Usage examples of "expeditious".
It is certainly the most ready and expeditious mode of determining the commercial value of a parcel of tin ore, which, after all, is the main object of all assaying operations.
The goal of VICAP is to provide all law enforcement agencies reporting similar pattern violent crimes with the information necessary to initiate a coordinated multiagency investigation which will lead to the expeditious identification and apprehension of the offender responsible for the crimes.
When I stepped out of my coach in the carriageway of this estate, I was spied by a dwarf, who saw me thanking God for my safe arrival, and beseeching Him for an expeditious departure, in the Lutheran manner.
He therefore directs me to call on you for a militia force of twelve thousand men from your State to serve not more than one hundred days, and to request that you will with the utmost despatch forward the troops to Washington by rail or steamboat as may be most expeditious.
The landlady, therefore, had no sooner received an intimation of the entrance of the above-said persons than she began to meditate the most expeditious means for their expulsion.
The meeting with their POC and the expeditious caching of their equipment was what the soldiers were practicing this early morning in the Florida woods.
Miraculously, the morning continued to hold fair-though telltale cloud formations promised an expeditious return to more conventional meteorological fulsomeness not too many metacycles hence.