单词	ad hocery
释义	ad hocery /ad ˈhɒk(ə)ri / (also ad hockery) noun [mass noun] informal The use of improvised measures rather than general long-term strategies: today’s problems are too urgent and complex to rely on ad hocery... It really was a literary movement to some extent and then it gathered speed and artists came to it and they enjoyed the kind of rebelliousness of it, the ad hocery of it. They see explanation and prediction not as deductive exercises but rather as exercises in flexible ad hocery that require stitching together diverse sources of information. This approach inevitably involves a certain amount of ad hocery. Origin Late 19th century: from ad hoc + -ery.
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