See expedite on Wiktionary
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"freely",
"freely"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"readily, promptly, quickly"
],
"links": [
[
"readily",
"readily"
],
[
"promptly",
"promptly"
],
[
"quickly",
"quickly"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ek.speˈdiː.teː/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ɛks̠pɛˈd̪iːt̪eː]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ek.speˈdi.te/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ekspeˈd̪iːt̪e]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "expedite"
}
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish non-lemma forms",
"Spanish verb forms"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "expedite",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "expedir"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of expedir combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"expedir",
"expedir#Spanish"
],
[
"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"object-second-person",
"object-singular",
"second-person",
"singular",
"with-voseo"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "expeditar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of expeditar:",
"first/third-person singular present subjunctive"
],
"links": [
[
"expeditar",
"expeditar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"first-person",
"form-of",
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "expeditar"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of expeditar:",
"third-person singular imperative"
],
"links": [
[
"expeditar",
"expeditar#Spanish"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"imperative",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"word": "expedite"
}
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