expedite
to speed up or make a process happen more quickly
Word origin: From Latin expedire, to free from entanglement.
Expedite in a sentence
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Paying a fee can expedite the visa application.
A dedicated review team was created to expedite applications that had stalled for months.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “expedite” well
Expedite means to speed up a process or make it proceed more efficiently. Distinguish it from expedient, an adjective about convenience, with which it shares a root.
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