expedite
verb
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Need someone to do something in a hurry? You can tell that person to step on it—or you can tell them expedite it. Figurative feet are involved in both cases, though less obviously in the second choice. Expedite comes from the Latin verb expedire, meaning “to free from entanglement” or “to release (a person) especially from a confined position.” The feet come in at that word’s root: it traces back to Latin ped- or pes, meaning “foot.” Expedient and expedition also stepped into English by way of expedire.
Examples of expedite in a Sentence
Tom Harpole, Air & Space, August/September 1993
Overnight he found himself coordinating the train and ship schedules and expediting the loading and unloading of 15,000 officers and men …
—Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1988
This final phase was never actually completed because of the need to expedite an airmobile force to Vietnam.
—Shelby L. Stanton, Anatomy of a Division, 1987
After the war its leaders were stigmatized as collaborators and accused of helping to expedite the murderous work of the Nazis.
—Bernard Wasserstein, New York Times Book Review, 24 May 1987
Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2024
That means feeding into teams’ strengths and wins, investing more in high-reward projects, and expediting smart ventures.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 21 June 2024
Biden has apologized for a few of his own political choices, including his vote for the 1998 legislation that overturned the Glass-Steagall Act and expedited the rise of the hugely conflicted entities at the heart of the financial crisis.
—James Lardner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
The administration pulled both requests hours before the commission meeting after a Miami Herald article noted the purchase prices were well above the market values in county appraisals and that the deals were expedited to skip the normal hearing process.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
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“Expedite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expedite. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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