Ad Hoc

Word AD HOC
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Ad hoc comes from Latin and it means "for this", "created for a cetain purpose". When someone comes up with a reason not to do something or to support an opinion. Urban Dictionary

A computer network consisting of a computer to computer connection, as opposed to computer-(router/hub/...)-(other computers) Urban Dictionary

Mutual masturbation. Urban Dictionary

A bull shit commitee that a large corporations create to pander to their employees. Urban Dictionary

When a person/persons stick their head into another persons bubble/space/home in search of booze! Urban Dictionary

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The word "ad-hoc" in example sentences

A senior adviser to the prime minister announced Friday that he was quitting, in part because he disagreed with the government's guidelines on radiation levels, and for what he called ad-hoc decision making. ❋ Mari Iwata (2011)

(I actually want an entirely new Constitution altogether, but on a properly thought-out and well-considered basis, not as the ad-hoc consequence of a Tea-Party-hijacked amendment convention.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you cannot clearly articulate when the commitment will be ended, then we tend to move in an ad-hoc way, staying in different places and not necessarily resolving problems in a way that fits our national interest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He's more interested in "Slap That Bass," in which Astaire's world-traveling ballet star encounters an ad-hoc orchestra of black engine workers on a ship, playing for the sheer joy of it, who allow him to share their fun. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan had to defend himself in parliament after a senior adviser quit saying the government is ignoring law and making ad-hoc decisions as it goes along, prolonging the emergency. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Under the Cheney doctrine, the executive can do exactly what it damn well pleases and the Congress is merely an ad-hoc advisory body. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sarah is a hateful arrogant airhead that cannot string together an ad-hoc conversation that includes a complex thought. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There were indeed statistical calculations of input/out but they were rather engineering/technical computations of resources and production capacities that had almost no real economic significance: consumer preference, demand in general was virtually non existing in the mind of the planners; all investment and production was concentrated on what was considered a priori as ideologically good or strategically necessary and usually involved many ad-hoc rectifications of the plan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nate Silver tries to put a happy face on things with a post arguing that a blue-state effect could push Coakley over the top, and Chris Bowers has been pushing his own ad-hoc statistical method that he says proves Coakley is still the favorite. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to a recent study at the University of Cambridge, such "typosquatting" sites tend to capture about 0.7 percent of the intended website's traffic, which for the movement's ad-hoc homepage OccupyWallSt.org averages about 400,000 a day. ❋ Turnstyle (2011)

Hix is best known as a chef and restaurateur, although he's rarely behind the stove any more "save the ad-hoc visits that keep my chefs on their toes". ❋ Unknown (2011)

As a number of officers have posted on this subject I would be curious as to their attitudes on armed civilian backup and how they would choose to incorporate such assistance in an ad-hoc tactical situation. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now it is going to be an ad-hoc pricing scheme for all songs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think it was also the first PSP game with a legitimately good online play, instead of the slowness of Midnight Club and the crappy ad-hoc of everything else. ❋ Unknown (2009)

/European Pressphoto Agency The Census Organization was till 1951 just an ad-hoc agency conducting the population count. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Open Plaques service which emerged from this ad-hoc grouping synthesises a number of tactics and workarounds to overcome the challenges it faces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Government does have a role to play, but that role should be defined by principles, and not ad-hoc determinations of what is good or bad by the majority that day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Either way a policy needs to be drawn up expressing the party's present point of view, at the moment every pronouncement on the subject seems to be too off-the-cuff, too ad-hoc and too unthinkingly defensive. ❋ O'Neill (2009)

He was subsequently appointed head of medical outreach for the Kisumu area's ad-hoc humanitarian aid committee, co-ordinating aid agencies, governments and international bodies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He hadn`t thought about the [matter] before, so when we [talked] he gave me an ad hoc [reply]. ❋ Malika (2004)

I use an ad hoc connection to [transfer] files from [my laptop] to [desktop]. ❋ Michael Lawson (2004)

[Chris and John] came into work with [sore] arms because of a crazy [ad-hoc] session last night. ❋ Sexytokyoboyz (2007)

I have to sit [on that bull] shit [employee] [retention] ad hoc commitee ❋ Wade McIntyre (2004)

[I am] on an Ad-Hoc [patrol]!! ❋ Philimon_za (2016)

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