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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 hoceries
  2. ad hocery
  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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