It's the Word of the Day podcast for March 4th.
Today's word is ad hoc, spelled as two words as they would be in Latin, adhoc, adhoc.
is an adjective.
It describes something that is formed or used for a special purpose or that is made or done without planning because of an immediate need.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the New Zealand Herald.
At the center of the plan were tools designed to help governments and councils move beyond ad hoc responses to extreme weather.
In Latin, ad hoc literally means for this.
And in English,
the term describes anything that can be thought of as existing for this purpose only.
For example,
an ad hoc committee is generally authorized to look into a single matter of limited scope,
not to broadly pursue any issue of interest.
Ad hoc can also be used as an adverb,
meaning for the particular end or case at hand, without consideration of wider application.
As in, decisions were made ad hoc.
With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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