Expedite
verb
To make something happen faster or more efficiently.
They are expediting the delivery of the goods.

Often appears as...
- expedite the process
- expedite delivery
verb
To take fast action to complete a task.
We have taken steps to expedite the review process.

Usage tips
Formal
verb
To support the progress or development of something.
Programs like these expedite learning and increase student engagement.

Usage tips
Academic
verb
To make something happen faster or more efficiently.
They are expediting the delivery of the goods.

Often appears as...
- expedite the process
- expedite delivery
verb
To take fast action to complete a task.
We have taken steps to expedite the review process.

Usage tips
Formal
verb
To support the progress or development of something.
Programs like these expedite learning and increase student engagement.

Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3

Urgency Context
Use 'expedite' when emphasizing the need to speed up actions due to urgency or deadlines.

Can we expedite the approval process, as our project deadline is approaching?
Positive Action
'Expedite' suggests a proactive approach to reduce delays in processes or tasks.

We hired more staff to expedite the workflow during peak season.
Efficiency Improvement
Use 'expedite' when referring to making a process not just faster, but also more efficient.

To expedite checkout, we've added new payment methods.
Urgency Context
Use 'expedite' when emphasizing the need to speed up actions due to urgency or deadlines.

Can we expedite the approval process, as our project deadline is approaching?
Positive Action
'Expedite' suggests a proactive approach to reduce delays in processes or tasks.

We hired more staff to expedite the workflow during peak season.
Efficiency Improvement
Use 'expedite' when referring to making a process not just faster, but also more efficient.

To expedite checkout, we've added new payment methods.
Urgency Context
Use 'expedite' when emphasizing the need to speed up actions due to urgency or deadlines.

Can we expedite the approval process, as our project deadline is approaching?
Positive Action
'Expedite' suggests a proactive approach to reduce delays in processes or tasks.

We hired more staff to expedite the workflow during peak season.
Efficiency Improvement
Use 'expedite' when referring to making a process not just faster, but also more efficient.

To expedite checkout, we've added new payment methods.
Video examples
How tech companies can...
on a bus or in a store, and we may have come into prolonged and close contact with someone and wouldn't know who they were. And so the augmentation that the exposure notification system provides is designed to fill in those gaps and to expedite the notification to public health of who has a positive test,
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A teen scientist's...
and the stage of healing that the chronic wound would be at. So I decided, why don't I design something to measure the moisture level within the wound so this can help doctors and patients treat their wounds better. And essentially, expedite the healing process. So that's exactly what I set out to do.
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The Community of Food PIPE...
you know, I wanted to open a restaurant that was small enough where I could do pretty much everything myself. In our first couple of weeks being open, we were very busy and my manager quit, and two of my shuckers didn't show up for work on Saturday night. I have to cook the line, I have to expedite,
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Epic Mountain Climb...
couldn't have climbed it it was just to expedite and try to get to the summit and try to measure this mountain we had to look at who had the most experience on that kind of terrain and we you know left as as mark or Nam myself the ridge that we were trying to climb it was you
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5 Things You Need to...
that you can actually do with your human remains you know you can you know be with with the green burial concept where you're returning your body to earth to nourish the earth you can be put into a mushroom suit where the fungus of the mushroom will actually help to expedite
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The rapid growth of the...
greatly reducing the lines at train stations. Digital ID scanners have replaced manual checks, expediting the boarding process, and artificial intelligence is deployed across the network to optimize travel routes. New solutions have been invented.
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How fast can a vaccine...
into the same vaccine design. These DNA and mRNA based vaccines could dramatically expedite all three stages of vaccine production. But until such breakthroughs arrive, our best strategy is for labs around the world to cooperate
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Why We Need To Talk Shit...
solves the time space and money constraints that hinder big infrastructure time in place of years or even decades to lay sewer lines we expedite that growth curve two weeks
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How to deconstruct...
Really expedites the process. My mother was a renaissance woman. Arnita Lorraine Thurston was a computer programmer, former domestic worker, survivor of sexual assault,
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Barat Ali Batoor: My...
like every other asylum seeker. But it had happened to be a little bit different with me. I was lucky. My contacts worked to expedite my case through UNHCR,
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How tech companies can...
on a bus or in a store, and we may have come into prolonged and close contact with someone and wouldn't know who they were. And so the augmentation that the exposure notification system provides is designed to fill in those gaps and to expedite the notification to public health of who has a positive test,
Video examples
A teen scientist's...
and the stage of healing that the chronic wound would be at. So I decided, why don't I design something to measure the moisture level within the wound so this can help doctors and patients treat their wounds better. And essentially, expedite the healing process. So that's exactly what I set out to do.
Video examples
The Community of Food PIPE...
you know, I wanted to open a restaurant that was small enough where I could do pretty much everything myself. In our first couple of weeks being open, we were very busy and my manager quit, and two of my shuckers didn't show up for work on Saturday night. I have to cook the line, I have to expedite,
Video examples
Epic Mountain Climb...
couldn't have climbed it it was just to expedite and try to get to the summit and try to measure this mountain we had to look at who had the most experience on that kind of terrain and we you know left as as mark or Nam myself the ridge that we were trying to climb it was you
Video examples
5 Things You Need to...
that you can actually do with your human remains you know you can you know be with with the green burial concept where you're returning your body to earth to nourish the earth you can be put into a mushroom suit where the fungus of the mushroom will actually help to expedite
Video examples
The rapid growth of the...
greatly reducing the lines at train stations. Digital ID scanners have replaced manual checks, expediting the boarding process, and artificial intelligence is deployed across the network to optimize travel routes. New solutions have been invented.
Video examples
How fast can a vaccine...
into the same vaccine design. These DNA and mRNA based vaccines could dramatically expedite all three stages of vaccine production. But until such breakthroughs arrive, our best strategy is for labs around the world to cooperate
Video examples
Why We Need To Talk Shit...
solves the time space and money constraints that hinder big infrastructure time in place of years or even decades to lay sewer lines we expedite that growth curve two weeks
Video examples
How to deconstruct...
Really expedites the process. My mother was a renaissance woman. Arnita Lorraine Thurston was a computer programmer, former domestic worker, survivor of sexual assault,
Video examples
Barat Ali Batoor: My...
like every other asylum seeker. But it had happened to be a little bit different with me. I was lucky. My contacts worked to expedite my case through UNHCR,
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Quote examples
Janet Napolitano
American Politician
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

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Hailey Gates
American Journalist
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

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Hank Azaria
American Actor
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

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Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

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Thomas R. Insel
American Scientist
Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

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Jeff Goodell
American Author
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

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Tommy Tuberville
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.

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Reed Morano
American Director
Being a cinematographer taught me a lot. I got to expedite the visions of many directors and learned how to navigate many styles and worlds.

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Amy Klobuchar
American Politician
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.

Quote examples
Janet Napolitano
American Politician
As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

Quote examples
Hailey Gates
American Journalist
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

Quote examples
Hank Azaria
American Actor
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

Quote examples
Dianne Feinstein
American Politician
We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Quote examples
Thomas R. Insel
American Scientist
Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a therapist, and expedite treatment for people who might not find 'seeing' a therapist acceptable.

Quote examples
Jeff Goodell
American Author
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

Quote examples
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Quote examples
Tommy Tuberville
By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.

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Reed Morano
American Director
Being a cinematographer taught me a lot. I got to expedite the visions of many directors and learned how to navigate many styles and worlds.

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Amy Klobuchar
American Politician
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.

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