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Expedient
EXPE'DIENT, a. [L. expediens; expedio, to hasten; Eng. speed.]
1. Literally, hastening; urging forward. Hence, tending to promote the object proposed; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances. Many things may be lawful, which are not expedient.
2. Useful; profitable.
3. Quick; expeditious. [Not used.]
EXPE'DIENT, n. That which serves to promote or advance; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end. Let every expedient be employed to effect an important object, nor let exertions cease till all expedients fail of producing the effect.
1. Shift; means devised or employed in an exigency.
expedient appears in definitions for these words:
Advisable Advisableness Advise After-game After-thought Best Chinse Dexterity Dextrous Expedience Expedient Experiment Fruitful Good Guaranty Happy Icosander Ineligible Inexpedient Innovation Inventive Lawful Legislate Liberty Ought Overagitate Possibility Pursue Refuge Representation Resource Scruple Sense Shift Shifting Shiftless Soder Stop-gap String Test Think Throw Trump Unadvisable Unexpedient
Advisable Advisableness Advise After-game After-thought Best Chinse Dexterity Dextrous Expedience Expedient Experiment Fruitful Good Guaranty Happy Icosander Ineligible Inexpedient Innovation Inventive Lawful Legislate Liberty Ought Overagitate Possibility Pursue Refuge Representation Resource Scruple Sense Shift Shifting Shiftless Soder Stop-gap String Test Think Throw Trump Unadvisable Unexpedient
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