0 the practice of reacting to what happens or is needed at a particular time, rather than planning in a way that suits all possible situations:
The resulting ad hockery - letting one bank collapse, while hastily orchestrating a bailout of another - did prevent a depression.
They may end up facing the charge of arbitrariness or ad hocery.
A book of this sort - that picks through Plato and Aristotle, Montaigne and Hume - risks losing any narrative thread to ad hockery.
This kind of ad hockery is just not good enough when the nation's security is at stake.
To me they are just miserable "ad hockery".
I suspect that it will be a defence review by ad hockery.
We need an industry and not an "ad hockery", an industry which will avoid the risks in the marine environment and the hazards to personnel.
One ought not to make frivolous remarks or engage in "ad hockery".
