EXPEDITIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expeditiously mean? 

• EXPEDITIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXPEDITIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. with efficiency; in an efficient manner

  Familiarity information: EXPEDITIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPEDITIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With efficiency; in an efficient manner

Synonyms:

efficiently; expeditiously

Context example:

he functions efficiently

Pertainym:

expeditious (marked by speed and efficiency)

 Context examples 

They travelled as expeditiously as possible, and, sleeping one night on the road, reached Longbourn by dinner time the next day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With such thoughts as these, among ten hundred others, Fanny proceeded in her journey safely and cheerfully, and as expeditiously as could rationally be hoped in the dirty month of February.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She made a hasty gesture with her hand, as if to entreat my patience and my silence, and turned towards London, whence, as her dress betokened, she had come expeditiously on foot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For the convenience of Charlotte and her child, they were to be more than two days on their journey, and Mr. Palmer, travelling more expeditiously with Colonel Brandon, was to join them at Cleveland soon after their arrival.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it might strike them that they could be more economically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Scotland.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Perhaps Mrs. Jennings was in hopes, by this vigorous sketch of their future ennui, to provoke him to make that offer, which might give himself an escape from it;—and if so, she had soon afterwards good reason to think her object gained; for, on Elinor's moving to the window to take more expeditiously the dimensions of a print, which she was going to copy for her friend, he followed her to it with a look of particular meaning, and conversed with her there for several minutes.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)