expedient 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- 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.
expedient 近义词
worthwhile, appropriate
resource
expedient 的近义词 19 个
- stratagem
- contrivance
- device
- instrument
- instrumentality
- makeshift
- maneuver
- means
- measure
- medium
- method
- recourse
- refuge
- resort
- scheme
- shift
- stopgap
- substitute
- gency
expedient 的反义词 1 个
更多expedient例句
- 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.