Definition of Expedient

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Expedient

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.

Quick; expeditious.

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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Expedient Quotations

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
Aldo Leopold

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
Barry Commoner

Expedient Translations

expedient in Italian is opportuno, utile
expedient in Norwegian is hensiktsmessig, utvei
expedient in Spanish is tempestivo, util

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