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Meanings of expedient in English
Spanish
conveniente Serving to promote your interest.
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Usage of expedient in English
1
I do what I think is right, not what's easy or expedient.
2
The expedient of representation first found its beginning in the Saxon witenagemot.
3
He had proceeded to introduce a similar expedient in his proposed chronometer.
4
In order to ascertain it, he had recourse to the following expedient.
5
The ultra-movement party thought it expedient to combine with the non-movement party.
6
His expedient was very simple, and had somewhat of barrack-life about it.
7
The national banks resorted to the expedient of paying with clearing-house certificates.
8
Perhaps the very boldness of the expedient alone prevented an immediate exposure.
9
Every possible expedient was used to shake the determination of the Dutch.
10
The expedient which they now made use of was the worst imaginable.
11
This expedient not being effectual, the idea of a bank suggested itself.
12
Not least, it becomes more difficult to sustain romantic or expedient illusions.
13
However, the man personating the inspector judged it expedient to say roughly:
14
The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
15
It will perhaps be expedient to print this list in the 'Extracts.'
16
Every one knows that expedient of the sleepless, the counting of sheep.
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Expedient through the time
Expedient across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common