expedientadjective
uk/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt/us/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt/formalhelpful or useful in a particular situation, but sometimes not morally acceptable:
It might be expedient not to pay him until the work is finished.
The management has taken a series of expedient measures to improve the company's financial situation.
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Useful or advantageous
- a pearl of great price idiom
- a place in the sun idiom
- advantageous
- all-singing
- amiss
- corrective
- favourable
- fodder
- foil
- fruitful
- fruitfulness
- general
- palliative
- profitable
- repay
- repay sb's effort, time, attention, etc. idiom
- respite
- salutary
- serviceable
- sniff
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expediently
adverb uk/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt.li/us/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt.li/
expedientnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt/us/ɪkˈspiː.di.ənt/formalan action that is expedient:
a political expedient
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Solving and solutions
- answer
- antidote
- band-aid solution
- be at the bottom of sth idiom
- clear (sth) up
- clue
- conquer
- conquerable
- fall
- kill or cure idiom
- lateral thinking
- magic wand
- modus vivendi
- palliative
- panacea
- result
- round
- solution
- talk sth out
- workaround
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