ad hockery
noun[U]
(alsoad hocery)uk/ˌæd ˈhɒk.ər.i/us/ˌæd ˈhɑː.kɚ.i/thepracticeofreactingto whathappensor isneededat aparticulartime,ratherthanplanningin a way thatsuitsallpossiblesituations:
采取临时对策;作出特别决定Thegovernmentcannotcontinueto get away with ad hockery inresponsetolocaltransportneeds.面对当地的交通需求,市政会采取临时对策的做法不再行得通。
Synonym
ad hocism
- Theresultingad hockery -lettingonebankcollapse, whilehastilyorchestratingabailoutof another - didpreventadepression.
- They may end upfacingthechargeofarbitrarinessor ad hocery.
- Abookof thissort- thatpicksthrough Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Hume -riskslosinganynarrativethreadto ad hockery.
Not expected or planned
- abruptly
- abruptness
- ad hoc
- ad hocism
- adventitious
- extemporize
- hoof
- innocent
- innocently
- instinctive
- instinctively
- involuntarily
- spirit
- spontaneity
- spontaneous
- spontaneously
- steepness
- unannounced
- unwitting
- unwittingly