Expedite

Definition: Expedite

Expedite

Verb

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

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "expedite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonym: Expedite

Aid

Expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.

Earliness

Accelerate; expedite; (quicken); make haste; (hurry).

Haste

Quicken; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.

Crosswords: Expedite

Latin (easily, freely, promptly).

Books

• How to Expedite Your Career Through Publishing (reference)

• Sell Your Home Faster with Feng Shui: Ancient Wisdom to Expedite the Sale of Real Estate (reference)

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Girls on wheels expedite aircraft production. Roller skates. Literally helping to speed the war effort, Dolores Richardson and Geneva Carpenter are ""expeditors" at Douglas Aircraft in El Segundo, California, where they deliver inter-departmental messages. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

In addition, FDAMA codified many of FDA’s initiatives and existing programs intended to expedite drug development and expand access to unapproved therapies. (references)

The Institutes have recruited outstanding scientists to lead research programs in this area. One consequence, for example, is that the resources of the NIH Intramural program have been used to expedite clinical trials of gentamicin therapy of DMD and to discuss the implications of findings so far with this strategy. (references)

These advances have made it possible for the NIH to launch two new initiatives that build on current activities and give a new focus to future work. The first initiative, the NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Initiative, is designed to expedite the progress toward finding effective medications and other approaches to delaying or preventing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. (references)

Business

The new code also introduced procedures to expedite certain business claims. (references)

MDS will also provide training to help expedite the development of Taiwan’s biotech industry. (references)

Results or information from the latter could also expedite the approval process for foreign products. (references)

Civil Liberties

Seychelles

The Supreme Court agreed to expedite the cases and scheduled them to be heard in March. (references)

Kazakhstan

Most organizations must hire lawyers or other consultants to expedite their registrations through the bureaucracy, which increases the registration cost by approximately $200 (29,400 tenge). (references)

Australia

During the year, the Government and DIMA agreed that detention of asylum seekers generally will not be funded for longer than 14 weeks, giving the agency a financial incentive to expedite case handling. (references)

Economic History

Italy

This procedure should expedite the granting of patents. (references)

Oman

A local contact can expedite the flow of paperwork and documents. (references)

Qatar

The purpose of this modification was to expedite the establishment of foreign businesses. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

He urged the Administration to expedite its reform agenda if it hopes to regain public trust in judicial institutions. (references)

Nigeria

Citizens encountered long delays and frequent requests from judicial officials for small bribes in order to expedite cases. (references)

Guatemala

The report further details the ease in which payments can be made to justice workers to postpone trials, expedite motions, alter evidence or issue rulings in a predetermined manner. (references)

Minorities

Latvia

However, international experts, government officials, and domestic human rights monitors have agreed that the country must continue to place high priority on and devote sufficient resources to implementing the citizenship law in a fair and impartial manner, as well as seek ways to expedite naturalization and promote social integration. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

Most foreign companies choose to work with private customs agents to expedite processing their imports. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

The ordinance also contains a provision to expedite the process for adjudicating election fraud cases. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

These changes should expedite the sanitary registration process for U.S. firms. (references)

El Salvador

Informal "fees" are sometimes requested by officials to expedite routine tasks. (references)

Ecuador

The use of a specialized customs agent is highly recommended in order to expedite the process. (references)

Travel

Canada

To expedite border crossings, native-born US citizens should carry either a passport, or a birth certificate and photo ID, such as a driver's license. (references)

Tunisia

THE GOVERNMENT ALSO INTRODUCED AN OFFICE IN THE MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT TO EXPEDITE THIS PROCESS FOR FOREIGN INVESTORS. (references)

Women

Morocco

The communique expressed disappointment that changes to the Personal Status Code had not yet been approved, offered specific recommendations for such changes, and urged the Consultative Commission to expedite its work. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Afrikaans

beklink (conclude, dispatch, finish, settle), afwikkel (conclude, dispatch, finish, liquidate, settle, unroll, unwind, wind off). (various references)

Albanian

shtyj përpara (further, urge on), i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, fleet of foot, fleet-footed, fleeting, flying, hasty, imminent, mercurial, prompt, quick, rapid, smart, spanking, speedy, swift, volant, wanton, winged, wing-footed), i lehtë (airy, downhill, easy, effortless, ethereal, etherial, facile, feathery, flimsy, frothy, gauzy, glib, gossamer, gossamery, light, lightweight, mild, pale, ready, sheer, simple, slight, subtile, subtle, toilless, trifling, tripping, walkaway, weak, weightless), bëj shpejt (despatch, dispatch, tear off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فعل بسرعة, ‏سهل (ease, ease off, easy, even, facilitate, favor, favour, flat, frail, get-at-able, plain, quite simple, simple, slick, smooth, soft), ‏عجل (accelerate, advance, anticipate, bicker, bullock, calf, dash, hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, run, speed, speed up, tire, veal), ‏أرسل (deliver, detach, emit, forward, issue, route, send, send off, toss off, transmit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, smarten up, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), лек (airy, bland, cool, cure, cushy, easy, facile, fairy, flimsy, gentle, gossamer, gossamery, gradual, lambent, lenient, light, lightsome, lightweight, medicine, mild, mobile, potty, quiet, remedy, skyey, slick, slight, snap, soft, subtle, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), изпълнявам бързо. (various references)

Chinese 

� 速 (Accelerate, Accelerated, Accelerating, Expedited, Expediting, Sped, Speeded, speeding), 催 (hurry, press, prompt, urge). (various references)

Czech

urychlit (accelerate, forward, hurry, hurry along, speed, speed up, spur). (various references)

Danish

tage hensyn til noedvendigheden af at fremskynde indfoerelsen af den faelles toldtarif mest muligt (as far as possible, the introduction of the common customs tariff, to take into account the need to expedite). (various references)

Dutch

afwikkelen (conclude, dispatch, finish, finnish, liquidate, settle, unroll, unwind, wind off), afhandelen (compose, conclude, dispatch, finish, finnish, settle), afdoen (conclude, dispatch, finish, finnish, put off, settle, take off). (various references)

Esperanto

finaranĝi (conclude, dispatch, finnish, settle). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش بردن (Advance, Encourage, Further, Hustle), تسریع کردن در, شتابان . (various references)

Finnish

kiirehtiä (hasten, hurry, hurry on, make haste). (various references)

French

expédions, expédiez, expédier (express), précipiter, faire avec diligence, faciliter, alimenter, accélérer. (various references)

Frisian

ôfhannelje (conclude, dispatch, finish, liquidate, settle). (various references)

German

beschleunigen (accelerate, advance, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, increase, precipitate, quicken, speed along, speed up, speedup, to accelerate, to expedite, to speed up, to speedup, to step up, urge). (various references)

Greek 

επισπεύδω (accelerate, despatch, dispatch, hasten, hie, hurry, precipitate, railroad, speed). (various references)

Hebrew 

לזרז (hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, urge), ל�"חיש (accelerate, hasten, hurry, speed up), ל�"ריץ (despatch, make run, run). (various references)

Hungarian

siettet (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, hasten, hurry, hurry up, press on, to accelerate, to antedate, to anticipate, to be not slow to, to expedite, to precipitate, to press forward, to press on, urge), gyors (agile, current sale, expeditious, expenditious, expidite, express, facile, fast, fleet, flighty, hasty, high speed, hit and run, laxity, nimble, nimble-footed, nippy, presto, prompt, quick, quick as thought, rapid, rash, ready, snap, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift, tantivy). (various references)

Indonesian

mengekspedisikan, memperlancar (launch, speed up), melancarkan. (various references)

Italian

effettuare (accomplish, achieve, bring about, carry out, contrive, effect, effectuate, export, make, perform, realize, take effect, take place), promuovere (advance, assist, encourage, excite, forward, further, pass, promote, to support, upgrade), affrettare (advance, aid, hasten, hurry, make hasten, quicken, rush). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

速める (to accelerate, to expedite, to hasten, to precipitate, to quicken), 早める (to accelerate, to expedite, to hasten, to precipitate, to quicken), 拍車�'掛ける (to encourage, to expedite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はくしゃ�'かける (to encourage, to expedite), はやめる (to accelerate, to expedite, to hasten, to precipitate, to quicken). (various references)

Korean 

급송하십시�". (various references)

Manx

siyraghey (accelerate, acceleration, bustling about, expedition, hasten, hastening, hurry, hurry along, hurry up, hustle). (various references)

Norwegian

påskynde (quicken). (various references)

Pig Latin

expediteay.(various references)

Portuguese

expida, expedir (despatch, dispatch, emit, forward, issue, send, ship), vantajoso (advantageous, beneficial, gainful, profit, profitable, purposive, serviceable, useful), despachar (bill, book, cashier, despatch, dispatch, forward, freight, send, send off, ship, speed), apressar (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, press, quicken, rush, speed, urge), acelerar (accelerate, haste, hasten, hurry, quicken, smarten, speed, speed up, urge). (various references)

Romanian

expedia (bundle, consign to, dispatch, forward, post, remit, send, ship, transmit, turn away), urgenta (urge), trimite (direct, dispatch, forward, march away, march out, refer, remit, send, ship, transmit), rezolva (clinch, compound, dispatch, do, piece up, resolve, settle, solve), grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), furniza (afford, bring, deliver, find, give, instruct, provide, purvey, supply), activa (accelerate, act, activate, actuate, dispatch, facilitate, hasten, stimulate, work), accelera (accelerate, dispatch, force, forward, hasten, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up, wing). (various references)

Russian 

ускорять (accelerate, quicken, sped, speed, speed up, swiften), удобный (carriageable, comfortable, comfy, commodious, convenient, cosy, easy, habitable, handy, snug, usable), содействовать (abet, aid and abet, bear a hand, co operate, contribute, contribute to, cooperate, facilitate, further, make, subserve), быстрый (agile, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, lively, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed), быстро отправлять. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ekspeditivan, ubrzati (accelerate, hasten, make fast, precipitate, quicken, speed, speed up). (various references)

Spanish

despachar (attend to, conclude, despatch, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, finish, sack, see to, send, send off, serve, settle, ship, toss off, transmit, turn away), acelerar (accelerate, activate, gun, hasten, hurry, hustle, open up, put on speed, quicken, Rev, speed up, spurt). (various references)

Swedish

expediera (attend to, dispatch, execute, forward, mail, post, send off, serve, settle), uträtta (do, execute), påskynda (hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, quicken), befordra (advance, convey, elevate, forward, Foster, further, promote, send, ship, transport, upgrade). (various references)

Thai

เร่ง (hustle). (various references)

Turkish

yollamak (convey, dispatch, forward, order away, send, send forth, send off, send out, ship off, transmit), kolaylaştırmak (be helpful, catalyze, ease, facilitate, further, make a dent in, make easy, pave the way, pave the way for, remit, short circuit, simplify, smooth, smooth the way, streamline), hızlandırmak (accelerate, force the pace, ginger, ginger up, hasten, hurry, jazz, jazz up, pour it on, pour on the speed, precipitate, quicken, Rev, rev up, speed, speed up, whip up, wing), göndermek (address, bundle off, conjure away, consign, dispatch, forward, freight, order away, refer, relegate, remit, route, send, send away, send forth, send off, send out, ship, ship off, transmit). (various references)

Ukrainian

прискорювати (accelerate, advance, anticipate, forward, hasten, hurry, precipitate, push, rattle through, speed, speed up, streamline, swiften). (various references)

despacher. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "expedite": expedited, expediter, expediters, expedites. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Expedite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exedite, expadite, expdedite, expedeate, expedire, expedit, expedity, expedize, experdite, expetite, expidite, xpedite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: exited.

-3 letters: dexie, tepee, tepid.

-4 letters: deep, deet, diet, dipt, dite, edit, eide, epee, exit, peed, pied, teed, tide, tied.

-5 letters: dee, dex, die, dip, dit, ped, pee, pet, pie, pit, pix, ted, tee, tie, tip.

+1 letter: expedient, expedited, expediter, expedites.

+2 letters: expedients, expediters, expertized, preexisted.

+3 letters: expediently, expenditure, inexpedient.

+4 letters: exopeptidase, expediential, expenditures, experimented, extemporised, extemporized, hyperexcited.

+5 letters: demultiplexer, exopeptidases, inexpediently, overexploited.