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expedient

/ik-spee-dee-uhnt/US // ɪkˈspi di ənt //UK // (ɪkˈspiːdɪənt) //

权宜之计,合宜的,适宜的,合理的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances: It is expedient that you go.
    • : conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right.
    • : acting in accordance with expediency, or what is advantageous.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a means to an end: The ladder was a useful expedient for getting to the second floor.
    • : a means devised or employed in an exigency; resource; shift: Use any expedients you think necessary to get over the obstacles in your way.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.worthwhile, appropriate

Examples

  • Congress should pass legislation allowing for an expedient and merciful resettlement of Afghan refugees into the country.

  • In some uncomplicated health-care situations, professional medical knowledge is sufficient to find an expedient solution, so decisions are straightforward.

  • After all, they reasoned, Burr was an expedient politician who would defect to the party that thrust him into power.

  • Machine learning provides an equitable, precise, and expedient capability to allocate our precious vaccine supplies.

  • Walling America off—whether physically, economically, or digitally—is expedient, but it is the ultimate self-defeating move for a 21st-century power that relies on international interconnectedness.

  • It was the result of a chain of good decisions—wise, prudent, long-sighted, or, at the least, expedient choices.

  • So in Florida, backing Medicaid expansion may become the politically expedient thing for the Republican.

  • Obama noted Thursday that both sides in the conflict blame the U.S., a popular and expedient political tactic in Egypt.

  • And because “it is very tempting to a minister to employ such an expedient…the practice will…be abused, in every government.”

  • The egalitarian rule-follower is merely expedient, but the loyal person will go to the wall for you.

  • I beseech your Majesty to be pleased to have executed immediately what is most expedient for the royal service in this matter.

  • But, after all, perhaps it might be easier and more expedient if he were to appear to accept the Seneschal's statement.

  • Probably his retreat would be cut off by some similar device, so the bolder expedient of an advance offered the better chance.

  • He trusted that what might be done in this matter be most expedient for the service of the king our sovereign.

  • Yet all this was beside the main point, which was that the action of Congress, whether expedient or not, was illegal.