verb
expedite
CEFR C1
to make an action or process happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly
In a sentence
Six example sentences with expedite, each labelled with its topic.
A dedicated stroke pathway expedites treatment, moving a patient from ambulance door to scanner in under twenty minutes.
Medicine
Paying the courier extra expedited the shipment, and the samples reached the buyer the morning before the meeting.
Business
A single decisive investor expedited the round, and the paperwork that had crawled for months closed in nine days.
Startups
A stamped letter from the embassy expedited her visa, and the passport came back in four days instead of six weeks.
Travel
Caching the build artifacts expedites every deploy, cutting the wait from forty minutes to under five.
Technology
The judge agreed to expedite the appeal, scheduling arguments for next month rather than the following spring.
Law
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Found in these word lists
Found in 6 published word lists
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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