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Expedient

Expedient Meaning & Definition
Expedient Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Expedient?

[n] a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
[adj] serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
[adj] appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Expedient: advantageous | appropriate | opportunist | opportunistic | timeserving

Related Terms | Find terms related to Expedient: action | ad hoc measure | advantageous | advisable | agency | answer | applicable | appropriate | apropos | art | artful dodge | artifice | auspicious | banausic | becoming | befitting | behind-the-scenes influence | beneficial | benevolent | blind | bon | bonny | braw | bueno | capital | chicanery | cogent | commendable | commodious | congruous | conspiracy | contrivance | convenient | correct | countermove | coup | course of action | craft | cute trick | deceit | decent | demarche | dernier ressort | design | desirable | device | devices | dodge | effective | effort | elegant | employable | estimable | excellent | expediency | expedients | fair | fakement | famous | favorable | feasible | feint | felicitous | fetch | fine | fit | fitten | fitting | fortunate | fructuous | functional | gambit | game | gimmick | going between | good | good for | goodly | grand | grift | happy | healthy | helpful | hope | improvisation | influence | instrument | instrumentality | intermediation | intrigue | judicious | jugglery | jury-rig | jury-rigged expedient | kind | knavery | last expedient | last resort | last shift | laudable | likely | little game | lucky | machination | machinery | makeshift | maneuver | maneuvering | maneuvers | manipulation | means | measure | mechanism | mediation | medium | meet | move | nice | noble | of general utility | of help | of service | of use | opportune | pertinent | pis aller | pleasant | plot | ploy | politic | political influence | possible | practicable | practical | pragmatic | pragmatical | profitable | proper | propitious | providential | prudent | racket | recommendable | recommended | recourse | red herring | refuge | regal | resort | resource | right | ripe | royal | ruse | scheme | seasonable | seemly | service | serviceable | shake-up | shift | skillful | sleight | solution | sortable | sound | splendid | step | stopgap | stratagem | strategy | stroke | stroke of policy | substitute | subterfuge | suitable | tactic | tactical | tactical maneuvers | tactics | temporary expedient | timely | to be desired | trick | trickery | trump | useful | utilitarian | valid | very good | virtuous | well-timed | wile | wily device | wire-pulling | wise | working hypothesis | working proposition | worthwhile

See Also | agency | convenient | crutch | improvisation | last resort | makeshift | means | pis aller | politic | stopgap | temporary expedient | useful | utile | way

Expedient In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*pe"di*ent\a. [L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. exp['e]dient. See {Expedite}.] 1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. --John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. --Whately. 2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.] His marches are expedient to this town. --Shak.
\Ex*pe"di*ent\, n. 1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind? --Philips. 2. Means devised in an exigency; shift. Syn: Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.

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