Definition of ad-hockery

ad-hockery

noun - uncountable

• one-off solutions that deal with some special case, rather than a more all-encompassing solution.
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  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

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