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What does "ad hoc" mean?‏

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Question added by Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel , Financial Analyst , Egyptian Water & Wastewater Regulatory Agency (EWRA)
Date Posted: 2014/08/11

Random, non scheduled. I worked for an "ad hoc" Air Cargo Company which operated non scheduled air cargo contracts, every flight/contract was different!!

Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel
by Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel , Financial Analyst , Egyptian Water & Wastewater Regulatory Agency (EWRA)

Business-wise, "Ad hoc" means:

Action taken for a particular reason or in a special situation, such as an ad hoc committee formed to consider a specific, urgent matter. Latin for, for this purpose.

Example

After a significant drop in product sales, my manager created an ad hoc team to pinpoint out what wasn't working with the current marketing strategy and propose a new plan of attack.

Simra Khan
by Simra Khan , Senior Media Planner , Red Dot Media

Ad-hoc means urgent and specified report or solution.

Hiras Kariyattil Muthunny
by Hiras Kariyattil Muthunny , Chief Marketing Officer , Smart Consulting Solutions Pte Ltd

A solution or an action taken for a spesific task 

amany said
by amany said , مدرسة لغة انجليزية , مدرسة عمر بن الخطاب التجريبية للغات

  •   An ad hoc is an  activity or organization is not planned in advance, but is done or formed only because a particular situation has made it necessary. ADJECTIVE :The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
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Sara Khan
by Sara Khan , financial and admin assistant , Ministry Of Defence

Ad hoc is a word that originally comes from Latin and means “for this” or "for this situation." In current American English it is used to describe something that has been formed or used for a special and immediate purpose, without previous planning.

Ad-hoc means that the solution is designed for this singular purpose, and not meant to be adapted to other proccess. Example We deal with problems on an ad hoc basis (= as they happen).

Imran Javed Akhtar
by Imran Javed Akhtar , B.D.O. , Bank Alfalah

ad hoc network refers to a network connection established for a single session and does not require a router or a wireless base station 

 

Rayan Fiaz
by Rayan Fiaz , Audit Manager , Deloitte - Saudi Arabia

ad hoc means For or concerned with one specific purpose.

omar almousa
by omar almousa , Special office , Office of the Mashhor Aedeibat of Accounting and Auditing

I with your answer .

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes.

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