Expedientadjective
Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
‘Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.’;
Expeditiousadjective
Fast, prompt, speedy.
Expedientadjective
Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
Expeditiousadjective
(of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
Expedientadjective
Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
Expeditiousadjective
Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.
Expedientadjective
(obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.
Expeditiousadjective
characterized by speed and efficiency
Expedientnoun
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
Expeditiousadjective
done with speed and efficiency
‘an expeditious investigation’;
Expedientadjective
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 or principled.
‘It is expedient for you that I go away.’; ‘Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.’;
Expedientadjective
Quick; expeditious.
‘His marches are expedient to this town.’;
Expedientnoun
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?’;
Expedientnoun
Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Expedientnoun
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Expedientadjective
serving to promote your interest;
‘was merciful only when mercy was expedient’;
Expedientadjective
appropriate to a purpose; practical;
‘in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty’;
Expedientadjective
(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral
‘either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so’;
Expedientadjective
(of an action) suitable or appropriate
‘holding a public enquiry into the scheme was not expedient’;
Expedientnoun
a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral
‘the current policy is a political expedient’;