EXPEDITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expedite mean? 

• EXPEDITE (verb)
  The verb EXPEDITE has 2 senses:

1. speed up the progress of; facilitate

2. process fast and efficiently

  Familiarity information: EXPEDITE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPEDITE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they expedite    ... he / she / it expedites   
Past simple: expedited   
Past participle: expedited   
-ing form: expediting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speed up the progress of; facilitate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

expedite; hasten

Context example:

This should expedite the process

Hypernyms (to "expedite" is one way to...):

aid; assist; help (give help or assistance; be of service)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Process fast and efficiently

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

I will try to expedite the matter

Hypernyms (to "expedite" is one way to...):

action; litigate; process; sue (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Since such were her feelings, it only remained, he thought, to secure and expedite a marriage, which, in his very first conversation with Wickham, he easily learnt had never been his design.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Adverse event reporting in Phase 0 trials is expedited.

(Phase 0 Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

TCR refers to the expedited repair of lesions located in the actively transcribed strand of genes by RNA polymerase II (RNAP II).

(Nucleotide Excision Repair Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The administrative office designated by a study coordinating center to receive expedited adverse event reports from the participating sites and then process, review, and submit those expedited reports to the sponsor.

(Central Office, NCI Thesaurus)

Nothing could be done without a reference to Elizabeth: but her inclination was growing so strong for a removal, that she was happy to have it fixed and expedited by a tenant at hand; and not a word to suspend decision was uttered by her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Six hours a day the young students were employed in this labour; and the professor showed me several volumes in large folio, already collected, of broken sentences, which he intended to piece together, and out of those rich materials, to give the world a complete body of all arts and sciences; which, however, might be still improved, and much expedited, if the public would raise a fund for making and employing five hundred such frames in Lagado, and oblige the managers to contribute in common their several collections.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)