noun, adjective
noun an action that is useful or necessary for a particular purpose, but not always fair or right:
The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.
adjective [notusuallybeforenoun] (of an action) useful or necessary for a particular purpose, but not always fair or right:
The government has clearly decided that a cut in interest rates would be politically expedient.
expediency noun [U]:
He acted out of expediency, not principle.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for expedient is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does expedient appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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