Expedient /(?)/
Ex·pe·di·ent
Expedient
a.
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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.
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Quick; expeditious. [Obs.]
His marches are expedient to this town.
Expedient
n.
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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?
- Means devised in an exigency; shift.