MEANING
Carried out quickly and effectively without unnecessary delay.
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- expeditious solution
- expeditious handling
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The clerk found an expeditious solution.
Expeditious handling kept the delay brief.
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more expeditious; superlative most expeditious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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