adjective
- Often improvised or impromptu.
- usage: "an ad hoc committee meeting"
- For or concerned with one specific purpose.
- usage: "a coordinated policy instead of ad hoc decisions"
adverb
- For one specific case.
- usage: "they were appointed ad hoc"
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