Definition of "ad-hoc" []

• Alternative spelling of ad hoc. (adjective)

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• "A senior adviser to the prime minister announced Friday that he was quitting, in part because he disagreed with the government's guidelines on radiation levels, and for what he called ad-hoc decision making."
• "There were indeed statistical calculations of input/out but they were rather engineering/technical computations of resources and production capacities that had almost no real economic significance: consumer preference, demand in general was virtually non existing in the mind of the planners; all investment and production was concentrated on what was considered a priori as ideologically good or strategically necessary and usually involved many ad-hoc rectifications of the plan."
• "Either way a policy needs to be drawn up expressing the party's present point of view, at the moment every pronouncement on the subject seems to be too off-the-cuff, too ad-hoc and too unthinkingly defensive."