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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Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
Best :: Best (superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself..
Expediential :: Expediential () Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.
Expedient :: 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..
Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.
Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..
Advisable-ness :: Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
Speed :: Speed (n.) To be expedient.
Dexterous :: Dexterous (a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager..
Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; 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..
Stoping :: Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient..
Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..
Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..
Inexpediently :: Inexpediently (adv.) Not expediently; unfitly.
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..
Expedient :: Expedient (a.) Quick; expeditious.
Expediment :: Expediment (n.) An expedient.
Scruple :: Scruple (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience..
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