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ADVERB:
For the specific purpose, case, or situation at hand and for no other: a committee formed ad hoc to address the issue of salaries.
ADJECTIVE:
  1. Formed for or concerned with one specific purpose: an ad hoc compensation committee.
  2. Improvised and often impromptu: "On an ad hoc basis, Congress has . . . placed . . . ceilings on military aid to specific countries" (New York Times).
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin : ad, to + hoc, neuter accusative of hic, this


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