Definition of expedient

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Expedient (a.) 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..

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Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..
Best :: Best (superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself..
Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
Overagitate :: Overagitate (v. t.) To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient.
Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
Expedient :: Expedient (n.) That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Happy :: Happy (superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen..
Inexpediently :: Inexpediently (adv.) Not expediently; unfitly.
Timesaving :: Timesaving (a.) Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient..
Stoping :: Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient..
Ineffectual :: Ineffectual (a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient..
Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn..
Expediment :: Expediment (n.) An expedient.
Speed :: Speed (n.) To be expedient.
Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
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