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EXPEDITIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does expeditiousness mean?
• EXPEDITIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun EXPEDITIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of being prompt and efficient
Familiarity information: EXPEDITIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being prompt and efficient
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
despatch; dispatch; expedition; expeditiousness
Context example:
it was done with dispatch
Hypernyms ("expeditiousness" is a kind of...):
celerity; quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness (a rate that is rapid)
Derivation:
expeditious (marked by speed and efficiency)
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