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expedient    音标拼音: [ɪksp'idiənt]
n. 权宜之计,临时手段
a. 权宜的,方便的,有用的

权宜之计,临时手段权宜的,方便的,有用的

expedient
adj 1: serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when
mercy was expedient" [ant: {inexpedient}]
2: appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it
was expedient to express loyalty"
n 1: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical
one

Expedient \Ex*pe"di*ent\a. [L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of
expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F.
exp['e]dient. See {Expedite}.]
1. 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}.
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It is expedient for you that I go away. --John xvi.
7.
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since
that can never be true expediency which would
sacrifice a greater good to a less. --Whately.
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2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.]
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His marches are expedient to this town. --Shak.
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Expedient \Ex*pe"di*ent\, n.
1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to
accomplish an end.
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What sure expedient than shall Juno find,
To calm her fears and ease her boding mind?
--Philips.
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2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Syn: Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.
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199 Moby Thesaurus words for "expedient":
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applicable, appropriate, apropos, art, artful dodge, artifice,
auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting,
behind-the-scenes influence, beneficial, benevolent, blind, bon,
bonny, braw, bueno, capital, chicanery, cogent, commendable,
commodious, congruous, conspiracy, contrivance, convenient,
correct, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, cute trick,
deceit, decent, demarche, dernier ressort, design, desirable,
device, devices, dodge, effective, effort, elegant, employable,
estimable, excellent, expediency, expedients, fair, fakement,
famous, favorable, feasible, feint, felicitous, fetch, fine, fit,
fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, functional, gambit, game,
gimmick, going between, good, good for, goodly, grand, grift,
happy, healthy, helpful, hope, improvisation, influence,
instrument, instrumentality, intermediation, intrigue, judicious,
jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kind, knavery,
last expedient, last resort, last shift, laudable, likely,
little game, lucky, machination, machinery, makeshift, maneuver,
maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, means, measure, mechanism,
mediation, medium, meet, move, nice, noble, of general utility,
of help, of service, of use, opportune, pertinent, pis aller,
pleasant, plot, ploy, politic, political influence, possible,
practicable, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, profitable, proper,
propitious, providential, prudent, racket, recommendable,
recommended, recourse, red herring, refuge, regal, resort,
resource, right, ripe, royal, ruse, scheme, seasonable, seemly,
service, serviceable, shake-up, shift, skillful, sleight, solution,
sortable, sound, splendid, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy,
stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, subterfuge, suitable, tactic,
tactical, tactical maneuvers, tactics, temporary expedient, timely,
to be desired, trick, trickery, trump, useful, utilitarian, valid,
very good, virtuous, well-timed, wile, wily device, wire-pulling,
wise, working hypothesis, working proposition, worthwhile


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