AD_HOC meaning: Made for a specific purpose

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word ad hoc:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

ad hoc: Merriam-Webster.com
ad hoc: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ad hoc: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ad hoc: Collins English Dictionary
ad hoc: Vocabulary.com
Ad-Hoc, Ad-hoc, ad-hoc, ad hoc: Wordnik
ad hoc: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ad-hoc, ad hoc: Wiktionary
ad hoc: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ad hoc: Infoplease Dictionary
ad-hoc, ad hoc: Dictionary.com
ad hoc: Online Etymology Dictionary
Ad Hoc (restaurant), Ad Hoc, Ad-hoc, Ad hoc (disambiguation), Ad hoc: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
ad hoc: Rhymezone
ad hoc: Free Dictionary
ad hoc: Mnemonic Dictionary
ad hoc: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
ad hoc: Dictionary/thesaurus
ad hoc: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
ad hoc: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
AD HOC: Accounting Glossary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Ad-hoc, ad hoc: Legal dictionary
Ad hoc: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

ad hoc: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Ad hoc: CCI Computer
I T Glossary (No longer online)
Ad-hoc, ad hoc: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Ad-hoc, ad hoc: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

AD HOC, AD HOC, AD HOC: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
ad hoc: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

ad hoc: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Ad-hoc, ad hoc: Urban Dictionary

Google, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, X, BlueSky, Kagi

Definitions from Wiktionary (ad hoc)

▸ adjective:  For a particular purpose.
▸ adjective:  Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
▸ adjective:  (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
▸ adjective:  (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
▸ adverb:  On the spur of the moment.
▸ adverb:  For a particular purpose.

Opposite:

planned, intentional, deliberate, premeditated

Phrases:

Ad hoc polymorphism, Ad hoc hypothesis, Ad hoc network, ad hoc committee, ad hoc computer network, more...

Adjectives:

ad lib, randomwise, indirect, extemporary, collateral, maybe, by the by, evenhanded, plainspoken, unfeigned

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