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Look up: ad-hoc

  1. Ad Hoc
    (Latin) literally for this; something that is ad hoc was created for a specific purpose; a committee can be ad hoc if it was implemented to deal with a specific purpose.
    Found on http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/glossary/glo

  2. ad hoc
    [adj] - often improvised or impromptu 2. [adj] - for or concerned with one specific purpose 3. [adv] - for one specific case
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Ad hoc
    The Latin term 'Ad hoc ' means, in a UK legal context: 'for this purpose'.
    Found on http://www.clickdocs.co.uk/glossary/ad-h

  4. ad hoc
    Contrived purely for the purpose in hand rather than planned carefully in advance. E.g. 'We didn't know what to do about the sausage rolls, so we set up an ad-hoc committee'. (1995-03-25)
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  5. Ad hoc
    For this purpose
    Found on http://www.lawteacher.net/Glossary.htm

  6. ad hoc
    Definition (keystage 2) This is a Latin phrase which is used to mean that something has been made up as we went along; it was not planned; there is no particular reason why it should be the way it is.
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  7. ad hoc
    adjective for or concerned with one specific purpose; `a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. ad hoc
    adjective often improvised or impromptu; `an ad hoc committee meeting`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. ad hoc
    adverb for one specific case; `they were appointed ad hoc`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Ad hoc
    `Ad hoc` is a Latin phrase which means `for this purpose`. It generally signifies a solution that has been custom designed for a specific problem, is non-generalizable, and cannot be adapted to other purposes. Common examples include a tailor-made suit, a handcrafted network protocol or a purpose-specific equation. Ad hoc can also have connotations of a makeshift solution, inadequate planning, or improvised events. Other derivates of the Latin in...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc

  11. ad hoc
    ad hoc Toward this; for this [purpose]. Referring to this, for this thing, for this purpose, for a particular purpose or occasion, for the present matter or situation, temporary; as a committee might be, said of an argument or reason which applies only to a specific case. An ad hoc committee is one whose existence is limited to the time it takes to ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. Ad hoc
    A dubious assumption or argument arbitrarily introduced as explanation after the fact.
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/a.html

  13. ad-hoc
    possibility of combining services at will when needed Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  14. ADHOC
    `ADHOC` (Cambodia Human Rights and Development Organization) is a Cambodian human rights organisation, founded in 1991. ADHOC sets out to investigate human rights violations in Cambodia.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHOC


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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