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agile

[aj-uhl, -ahyl]

adjective

  1. quick and well-coordinated in movement; lithe.

    an agile leap.

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  2. active; lively.

    an agile person.

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  3. marked by an ability to think quickly; mentally acute or aware.

    She's 95 and still very agile.

  4. noting or relating to a philosophy of product development and production intended to create and distribute batches of working products in a short period of time with subsequent batches planned in a cyclical schedule of improvement, production, and distribution: agile manufacturing;

    agile software programming;

    agile manufacturing;

    agile teams.



noun

  1. Sometimes Agile an iterative and collaborative philosophy of rapid product development and production.

    Agile is being used by more and more companies outside of the tech sector.

agile

/ əˈdʒɪlɪtɪ, ˈædʒaɪl /

adjective

  1. quick in movement; nimble

  2. mentally quick or acute

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • agilely adverb
  • agileness noun
  • unagile adjective
  • unagilely adverb
  • agility noun
  • ˈ adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of agile1

First recorded in 1570–80; earlier agill, from Middle French agile “nimble” and Latin agilis “easily moved, moving easily,” equivalent to ag- (base of agere “to do, drive”) + -ilis -ile
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of agile1

C15: from Latin agilis, from agere to do, act
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Davis, in turn, paid homage to Foster’s agile brilliance with the funk single “Mr. Foster,” recorded during his sessions for the 1972 album “On the Corner.”

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"We have to make sure that we are agile and ready to adapt, hence why the first squad was a little bit bigger."

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Imposing, technically gifted and surprisingly agile, the striker appeared to have the world at his feet.

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"You have to work and be agile around it, because it never plays out how you expect it to," says Mr Ahddoud.

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Mr Norman said he believed smaller institutions, which were more "agile", had been lost from the university landscape.

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