Expedite
['ekspɪdaɪt] or ['ɛkspədaɪt]
Definition
(verb.) process fast and efficiently; 'I will try to expedite the matter'.
(verb.) speed up the progress of; facilitate; 'This should expedite the process'.
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Definition
(a.) Free of impediment; unimpeded.
(a.) Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.
(v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.
(v. t.) To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Hasten, accelerate, despatch, speed, hurry, quicken, precipitate, forward, advance, press forward, urge forward, press on, urge on.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCELERATE]
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Definition
v.t. to free from impediments: to hasten: to send forth: to despatch.—adj. free from impediment: unencumbered: quick: prompt.—adv. Ex′peditely.—n. Expedi′tion speed: promptness: any undertaking by a number of persons: a hostile march or voyage: those who form an expedition.—adjs. Expedi′tionary; Expedi′tious characterised by expedition or rapidity: speedy: prompt.—adv. Expedi′tiously.—n. Expedi′tiousness quickness.—adj. Exped′itive.
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Examples
- Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me, and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- These orders were repeated several times without apparently expediting McClernand's advance. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The commands were abbreviated and the movement expedited. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As stated, my action in sending Sherman back was expedited by a desire to get him in command of the forces separated from my direct supervision. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The use of electric motors has greatly extended, cheapened, and expedited the street car service. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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