expedite

From Latin expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“bring forward, set right”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.spəˌdaɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛk.spɪˌdaɪt/

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expedite (third-person singular simple present expedites, present participle expediting, simple past and past participle expedited)

1. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.

   He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.

2. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

• impede
• slow down

• expede (obsolete)
• expedience
• expediency
• expedient
• expedition
• expediter

expedite (comparative more expedite, superlative most expedite)

1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
   • Hooker

     to make the way plain and expedite

2. Expeditious; quick; prompt.
   • Tillotson

     nimble and expedite […] in its operation

   • John Locke

     Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.

• “expedite” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

From expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“liberate, free”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.speˈdiː.teː/, [ɛk.spɛˈdiː.teː]

expedītē (comparative expedītius, superlative expedītissimē)

1. freely, without impediment.
2. readily, promptly, quickly

• expediō
• expedītus

• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expedite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

expedite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expeditar.