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adhocery

adhocery 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 adhocery

pluraladhoceries

Questions about adhocery

What is adhocery the alternative spelling of?
Adhocery is the alternative spelling of ad hocery.

Words near adhocery in the dictionary

  1. adhkar
  2. adho mukha shvanasana
  3. adho mukha svanasana
  4. ADHOC
  5. adhoceries
  6. adhocery
  7. adhocism
  8. adhocisms
  9. adhockeries
  10. adhockery
  11. adhocness

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