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ad-hockery

ad-hockery is the alternative spelling of ad hocery.

Meaning of ad hocery

Noun

ad hocery (countable and uncountable, plural ad hoceries)

  1. (informal) Use of ad hoc or improvised reasoning.
    • We can, of course, simply drift into the future, in which case where we end up will be the result of inertia buffeted by ad hocery and circumstance.2011, Alan Cairns, Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State, page 80
    Synonyms:
    ad hocism
  2. (informal) Arbitrary decision rules sometimes included in artificially intelligent software to simulate the unexpectedness in human reasoning.

Forms of ad-hockery

pluralad-hockeries

Questions about ad-hockery

What is ad-hockery the alternative spelling of?
Ad-hockery is the alternative spelling of ad hocery.

Words near ad-hockery in the dictionary

  1. ad-hoc polymorphism
  2. ad-hoc polymorphisms
  3. ad-hocism
  4. ad-hocisms
  5. ad-hockeries
  6. ad-hockery
  7. ad-hocly
  8. ad-hocness
  9. ad-hocracies
  10. ad-hocracy
  11. ad-hocrat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ad-hockery (page history and authors); ad hocery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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