Expeditious

Definition: Expeditious

Expeditious

Adjective

1. Characterized by speed and efficiency.

Date "expeditious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Expeditious

Synonyms: prompt (adj), timesaving (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast; (swift); quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake; (intelligent).
Velocity	Adjective: fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile, expeditious; express; active; flying, galloping; Verb: light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric, telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow; Noun: quick as lightning; Noun: quick as a thought.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Expeditious

English words defined with "expeditious": Quick with child ♦ To make ready. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Expeditious justice : papers of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (reference) The Assassination Materials Disclosure Act of 1992 : hearing before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, on S.J. Res. 282, to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant t (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption
	Fast; quick; ASAP; abrupt; accelerated; active; agile; alert; animated; breakneck; brief; brisk; cursory; curt; double time; energetic; expeditious; expeditive; express; fleet; flying; get going; harefooted; hasty; headlong; hurried; immediate; impatient.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The Commission will have its principal permanent Bureau in Paris and will hold its first meeting in Paris as soon as practicable after the coming into force of the present Treaty, and thereafter will meet in such place or places and at such time as it may deem convenient and as may be necessary for the most expeditious discharge of its duties. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It must be expeditious.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Carrier detection in pregnant couples with a family history of CF should be provided in an expeditious manner. (references)
Business		American suppliers must be able to address the problems and concerns of the Taiwan user in an expeditious manner. (references)
		Foreign suppliers must be able to address the problems and concerns of the Taiwan purchaser in an expeditious manner. (references)
Civil Liberties	Sweden	To remedy this situation, the Government continued to experiment with pilot programs at selected border crossings to provide expeditious legal assistance. (references)
	Russia	Although the formal link between the Government and TV-6 does not extend beyond a 16-percent government stake in energy giant Lukoil, in the view of most independent observers the timing of the suit (brought precisely when TV-6 was becoming profitable), the unusually expeditious handling by the courts, the actual court rulings, and the speed with which the Government rushed to implement and enforce those decisions all point to the suit's non-commercial motives. (references)
Economic History	Chile	Approval procedures are expeditious, and applications are typically approved within a matter of days and almost always within one month. (references)
Human Rights	Switzerland	Trials usually are expeditious. (references)
	Djibouti	The law provides for bail and expeditious trial. (references)
	Gabon	Detainees have the right to an expeditious trial, as defined by the law. (references)
Political Economy	Tanzania	The inefficient and corrupt judicial system often did not provide expeditious and fair trials. (references)
	Togo	The Government continued to influence the understaffed and overburdened judiciary and did not ensure defendants' rights to fair and expeditious trials. (references)
	Mozambique	Fair and expeditious trials were problematic due to an inefficient, understaffed, and underfunded judiciary, which was dominated by the executive and subject to corruption. (references)
Travel	Ireland	Furthermore, U.S. exporters should seriously consider warehousing in Ireland for expeditious supply and service for customers. (references)
	Switzerland	The trade fairs in Switzerland all have customs offices that can facilitate the payment of fees and clearing of items in an expeditious fashion. (references)
Women	Benin	Some women deputies have threatened to call for public protests if the legislation does not receive full, fair, and expeditious consideration. (references)
Worker Rights	Namibia	Under the agreement, labor-related issues in the EPZ were referred to a special EPZ dispute settlement panel composed of employers and workers for expeditious resolution. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	The effect of the expeditious repatriation of some illegal immigrants and the legalization of others has been to improve overall working conditions for legally employed foreigners. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	In 1997 the Government offered an amnesty to allow illegal immigrants and their employers or sponsors to avoid the possibility of prosecution by voluntarily seeking expeditious repatriation. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	Rigid and expeditious justice is the first safeguard of freedom, the basis of all ordered liberty, the vital force of progress.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We cannot rest until their concerns are dealt with in a sensitive, expeditious and compassionate fashion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Expeditious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Expeditious" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	28	65,706

Language		Translations for "expeditious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shpejtë (agile, arrowy, brisk, dashing, expedite, 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). (various references)

Bulgarian		експедитивен (efficient), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, 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). (various references)

Chinese		�"急. (various references)

Czech		rychlý (fast, flying, hasty, high speed, nippy, quick, rapid, ready, spanking, speedy, sweeping, swift, wing-footed). (various references)

Danish		hurtig gennemfoerelse og forbedring af tilrettelaeggelsen af internationale besoeg af videnskabsmaend og specialister (the expeditious implementation and improvement in organization of international visits of scientists and specialists). (various references)

Dutch		spoedprocedure (expeditious procedure, proceedings of a summary court), spoedbehandeling (expeditious procedure, proceedings of a summary court), het snel uitvoeren en verbeteren van de organisatie van internationale bezoeken van wetenschapsbeoefenaren en specialisten (the expeditious implementation and improvement in organization of international visits of scientists and specialists). (various references)

Finnish		oikeudenkäyntimenettely kiireellisissä asioissa (expeditious procedure, proceedings of a summary court). (various references)

French		procédure d'urgence (expeditious procedure), la réalisation rapide et l'amélioration de l'organisation de visites internationales d'hommes de science et de spécialistes (the expeditious implementation and improvement in organization of international visits of scientists and specialists). (various references)

German		schnell (apace, cut, fast, flying, hasty, hurry, prompt, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rapids, slippy, smart, smartly, soon, spanking, speedily, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references)

Greek		γοργόσ (quick, rattling, speedy, swift), ταχύσ (cursory, express, fast, fleet, flying, precipitate, presto, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift). (various references)

Hungarian		sommás (summary), expeditív, eredményes (effectual, efficacious, efficient, expenditious, fruitful, successful). (various references)

Indonesian		cara terbaik. (various references)

Italian		sbrigativo (abrupt, brusque, hasty), rapido (abrupt, cursory, express, fast, flying, hasty, meth, quick, rapid, smart, speed, speedy, sweeping, swift), celere (riot police, swift). (various references)

Korean		� 쌘. (various references)

Manx		siyragh (cursory, hastening, hasty, hurried, impetuous, passion, prompt, rash). (various references)

Norwegian		ekspeditt, rask (brisk, fast, hasty, hurried). (various references)

Pig Latin		expeditiousay

Portuguese		expedito (prompt, smart), expedições, despachado (adroit, Java, light-handed, speedy). (various references)

Romanian		expeditiv (efficient, expedient, expeditively, operative, rough and ready), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm). (various references)

Russian		быстрый (agile, expedite, 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). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hitar (agile, fast, light-heeled, light-legged, nippy, quick, rangy, rash, trig), brz (cursory, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, repartee, spanking, speedy, swift, tantivy, tripping). (various references)

Spanish		expeditivo (rapidly). (various references)

Swedish		snabb (adroit, clipping, darting, double quick, express, fast, fleet, fleeting, hurried, lightsome, precipitatious, precipitous, presto, rapid, ready, smart, spanking, swift). (various references)

Thai		ว่องไว (nimble, swift). (various references)

Turkish		eli çabuk (adroit, dexterous, dextrous, fast, nimble-fingered, sharp, swift, swift-handed), tez (discourse, disquisition, dissertation, hasty, nimble, prompt, promptly, quick, quickly, thesis, treatise), hızlı (crash, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, impetuous, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), çabuk (apace, be quick, come, come on, early, fast, hasty, hurry, hurry up, in double time, in good time, light footed, lissom, lissome, nimble, precipitous, presto, prompt, pronto, quick, quick-action, quickly, rapid, ready, sharp, snappy, soon, speedy, swift, swiftly). (various references)

Ukranian		швидкий (agile, arrowy, dapper, double quick, fast, fleet, fleeting, hasty, nippy, precipitate, present, prompt, quick, rapid, snappy, spanking, speedy, summary, swift, whipping, zippy), проворний (alert, limber, smart). (various references)

Vietnamese		mau lẹ (apace, prompt, speedy, trippingly, wing-footed), khẩn trương tính dễ thực hiện chóng vánh, chóng vánh. (various references)

Welsh		rhwydd (easy, prosperous), hyrwydd (convenient). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "expeditious": expeditiously, expeditiousness, expeditiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Expeditious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Expedicio, expedigious, expeditio, expeditiuos, expenditious, expiditious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "expeditious" (pronounced e'kspudi"shus)
6	-u d i" sh u s	seditious.
5	-d i" sh u s	injudicious, judicious.
4	-i" sh u s	ambitious, auspicious, capricious, delicious, factitious, fictitious, inauspicious, malicious, nutritious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious.
3	-sh u s	anxious, atrocious, audacious, capacious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, efficacious, facetious, fallacious, ferocious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, infectious, loquacious, luscious, nauseous, noxious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, precious, precocious, predaceous, pretentious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, salacious, sebaceous, semiprecious, spacious, specious, subconscious, tenacious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-o-p-s-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: exposited.
	-3 letters: deputies, epidotes, epoxides, outspeed, poetised, tuxedoes.
	-4 letters: deities, deposit, deputes, despite, detoxes, dispute, dopiest, epidote, episode, epoxide, epoxied, epoxies, existed, exposed, exposit, outside, outsped, oxidise, pieties, piteous, podites, poetise, posited, sopited, spouted, tedious, topside, toupees, tuxedos.
	-5 letters: deixis, depose, depots, depute, despot, dexies, dixits, doxies, duties, epodes, espied, etudes, exited, exodus, expose.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-o-p-s-t-u-x"
	+2 letters: expeditiously.
	+4 letters: expeditiousness.
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