variants:
or ad hocery
Definition of ad hockery
: ad hocism
Panetta has been most anxious to get away from the ad hockery that had characterized so much White House business.— Elizabeth Drew, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 1994
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The first known use of ad hockery was in 1899
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