v
(transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
n
The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
n
(idiomatic, obsolete, slang) A saying signifying that the business or person spoken of or alluded to is finished, i.e. that it has no future.
v
(colloquial) to space out, to become unaware of one's immediate surroundings
adv
(figuratively) Against the anticipated or appropriate course of something; improperly, perversely, wrongly.
adj
Alternative spelling of better off
n
(economics) The impact of a highly improbable occurrence on the economy.
n
(idiomatic) A period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.
n
The claim that adding manpower to a late software development project makes it even later.
n
The speed at which a vehicle normally moves when traveling long distances.
n
(idiomatic, almost always preceded by a, always followed by a noun or noun phrase) Superior to.
adj
(rare) Quickest or most convenient.
v
(rare) To pass beyond limits; to go to or towards an extreme.
v
(obsolete) To hasten or expedite
adj
(obsolete) Expeditious.
n
Something that is expedient.
n
(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
adj
(obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
n
Obsolete form of expedient. [A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.]
n
(UK, obsolete, transitive, law, forest law) The process of expeditating.
v
(transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
n
(obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
adj
Of or pertaining to an expedition.
adj
(obsolete) Performing with speed.
n
Alternative spelling of expediter [A person who expedites.]
n
An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables.
v
(transitive, by extension) To accelerate.
n
The quickest or most direct method or path.
adj
Pronunciation spelling of fourth. [The ordinal form of the number four.]
v
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n
(by extension) The point of death, or the last period of one's life.
n
(informal) A minor disaster.
n
(by extension) Something occurring on the margins or periphery of a given event, situation etc.
adj
(in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
adj
Alternative form of put off [offended, repulsed]
n
crucial moment, especially in which one can finally show his potential or must reckon with something
adj
(now dialectal or poetic) Open.
adj
Alternative form of OTT [over the top]
n
(obsolete) The furthest degree or extremity, going beyond bounds or propriety.
v
To set the speed in a race.
n
A person's best performance at a task to date.
n
(figuratively) The point in any process or sequence of events where some development becomes inevitable.
adv
(now rare) Alternative form of postehaste [(now rare) As fast as possible; with all possible haste.]
v
(obsolete) To be expedient.
n
(An order to observe) a (temporary) speed restriction.
n
A traffic ticket issued for exceeding the speed limit.
adj
Not having enough time to do things one wishes to do.
adj
That reduces the time needed to perform a task, especially by using a shorter route or a more efficient method.
n
(UK, employment) Initialism of time off in lieu.
n
(chiefly Britain) The limit of one's sanity or mental capacity; the point of desperation.
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