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Definition of Expedite

1. Verb. Speed up the progress of; facilitate. "This should expedite the process"

2. Verb. Process fast and efficiently. "I will try to expedite the matter"

Definition of Expedite

1. a. Free of impediment; unimpeded.

2. 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.

Definition of Expedite

1. Verb. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Expedite

1. to speed up the progress of [v -DITED, -DITING, -DITES]

Medical Definition of Expedite

1. 1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants. "To expedite your glorious march." (Milton) 2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially. "Such charters be expedited of course." (Bacon) Origin: Expedited; Expediting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expedite

expediating expedience expediences expediencies expediency expedient expediential expediently expedients expediment

expediments expeditate expeditated expeditates expeditating expedite (current term) expedited expeditely expediteness expediter

expediters expedites expediting expedition expeditionary expeditionist expeditionists expeditions expeditious expeditiously

Literary usage of Expedite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Simcoe's Military Journal: A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps by John Graves Simcoe (1844)
"... as two circumstances that will probably expedite the relief of our suffering ... will consider it as intended to expedite their return from captivity. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"... and this Is no doubt the reason that greater effort was not made to expedite the needed repairs. In our opinion, the case has been correctly tried, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"tatos tlio passage of tlio c-hild through the pelvi expedite tlio after-birth, the woman in a surprisingly s resumes lici- household duties quite as it' ..."

4. Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1922)
"To expedite the business of reporting, Mr. Webb established a daily horse express between New York and Washington, with relays of horses every six miles of ..."

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