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Meanings of expedient in inglês

espanhol
conveniente

Serving to promote your interest.

        Related terms
        conveniente

        Providing comfort.

              Usage of expedient in inglês
              1
              I do what I think is right, not what's easy or expedient.
              I'd know you anywhere
              2
              The expedient of representation first found its beginning in the Saxon witenagemot.
              Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution
              3
              He had proceeded to introduce a similar expedient in his proposed chronometer.
              Men of Invention and Industry
              4
              In order to ascertain it, he had recourse to the following expedient.
              Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
              5
              The ultra-movement party thought it expedient to combine with the non-movement party.
              The English Constitution
              6
              His expedient was very simple, and had somewhat of barrack-life about it.
              Oak Openings
              7
              The national banks resorted to the expedient of paying with clearing-house certificates.
              The Moneychangers
              8
              Perhaps the very boldness of the expedient alone prevented an immediate exposure.
              The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea
              9
              Every possible expedient was used to shake the determination of the Dutch.
              Holland: The History of the Netherlands
              10
              The expedient which they now made use of was the worst imaginable.
              The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
              11
              This expedient not being effectual, the idea of a bank suggested itself.
              The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Son...
              12
              Not least, it becomes more difficult to sustain romantic or expedient illusions.
              The Guardian
              13
              However, the man personating the inspector judged it expedient to say roughly:
              A Set of Six
              14
              The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
              The Federalist Papers
              15
              It will perhaps be expedient to print this list in the 'Extracts.'
              Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Societ...
              16
              Every one knows that expedient of the sleepless, the counting of sheep.
              The Soul of a Bishop
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              Translations for expedient
              espanhol
              conveniente
              Expedient through the time
              Expedient across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Less common