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adhockery

adhockery 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 adhockery

pluraladhockeries

Questions about adhockery

What is adhockery the alternative spelling of?
Adhockery is the alternative spelling of ad hocery.

Words near adhockery in the dictionary

  1. adhoceries
  2. adhocery
  3. adhocism
  4. adhocisms
  5. adhockeries
  6. adhockery
  7. adhocness
  8. adhocracies
  9. adhocracy
  10. adhocrat
  11. adhocratic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adhockery (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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