Expeditious
adjective
Fast and efficient.
We need to take expeditious action to solve the problem.
Often appears as...
- expeditious action
- expeditious resolution
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Done quickly and without delay.
Please make an expeditious decision on this matter.
Often appears as...
- expeditious decision
- expeditious process
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Fast and efficient.
We need to take expeditious action to solve the problem.
Often appears as...
- expeditious action
- expeditious resolution
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Done quickly and without delay.
Please make an expeditious decision on this matter.
Often appears as...
- expeditious decision
- expeditious process
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Urgency Implication
Using 'expeditious' often suggests an element of urgency and a call to action.
Management called for expeditious measures to address the outage.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Expeditious' carries a positive tone, highlighting efficiency and swiftness as beneficial.
Her expeditious work habits impressed her supervisors.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Often used in a business or legal context, where swift action is appreciated.
The expeditious handling of client requests keeps our reviews positive.
Pro Tip 1/3Urgency Implication
Using 'expeditious' often suggests an element of urgency and a call to action.
Management called for expeditious measures to address the outage.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Expeditious' carries a positive tone, highlighting efficiency and swiftness as beneficial.
Her expeditious work habits impressed her supervisors.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Often used in a business or legal context, where swift action is appreciated.
The expeditious handling of client requests keeps our reviews positive.
Pro Tip 1/3Urgency Implication
Using 'expeditious' often suggests an element of urgency and a call to action.
Management called for expeditious measures to address the outage.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
'Expeditious' carries a positive tone, highlighting efficiency and swiftness as beneficial.
Her expeditious work habits impressed her supervisors.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Often used in a business or legal context, where swift action is appreciated.
The expeditious handling of client requests keeps our reviews positive.
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Quote examples
Robert P. McCulloch
American Businessman
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.
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Steve King
American Politician
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.
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Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
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Bob Graham
American Politician
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I don't have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party's manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.
Quote examples
Robert P. McCulloch
American Businessman
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.
Quote examples
Steve King
American Politician
This bill, this badly named ENLIST Act, would put out the advertisement that says, 'Sneak into America. Sneak into the military, and that's going to be the most expeditious path to American citizenship and the whole smorgasbord of benefits that come from American citizenship.
Quote examples
Hideki Tojo
Japanese General
Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.
Quote examples
Bob Graham
American Politician
I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
Quote examples
Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
I don't have a personal agenda. My priority is expeditious implementation of my party's manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra.
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