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Advertisement Find Used Books at Alibris! Over 50 Million Books in One Website. Used, New and Out of Print. Click here now to Find books at Alibris and Save!      Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 18, 2006   expeditious \ek-spuh-DISH-uhs\, adjective: Characterized by or acting with speed and efficiency.   His problem was to get from Lookout Valley to Chattanooga Valley in the most expeditious way possible. -- Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs The criminal may of course use some short-term act of violence to 'terrorize' his victim, such as waving a gun in the face of a bank clerk during a robbery in order to ensure the clerk's expeditious compliance. -- Bruce Hoffman, Inside Terrorism Expeditious is derived from Latin expeditus, "unshackled, unimpeded, ready for action," from expedire, "to free (one's feet) from a snare; hence, to get out, to set free, to get ready for action," from ex-, "out of" + pes, ped-, "foot." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for expeditious   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors CollegeRecruiter.com Find the right school Or find the right job! USAToday.com 35% off Newsstand Subscribe Today! BMG Direct Your favorite music 12 for the price of 1!! eCampus.com Textbooks, books and more - Free Shipping!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6643769-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802