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expediently

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

迅速地,尽快地,尽快,迅速

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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

as inprobably

Examples

  • It was impossible not to question the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas.

  • To this he would answer that expediently considered no husband could be better than the one he had chosen her.

  • Having rightly and mercifully threatened to take it, it not only rightly may take it, but expediently must.