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expedient 音標拼音: [ɪksp'idiənt] n. 權宜之計,臨時手段
a. 權宜的,方便的,有用的 權宜之計,臨時手段權宜的,方便的,有用的 expedient adj 1: serving to promote your interest; " was merciful only when mercy was expedient" [ ant: { inexpedient}] 2: appropriate to a purpose; practical; " in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" n 1: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical oneExpedient \ Ex* pe" di* ent\ a. [ L. expediens, - entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. exp[' e] dient. See { Expedite}.] 1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self- interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from { right} or { principled}. [ 1913 Webster] It is expedient for you that I go away. -- John xvi. 7. [ 1913 Webster] Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. -- Whately. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Quick; expeditious. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] His marches are expedient to this town. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Expedient \ Ex* pe" di* ent\, n. 1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end. [ 1913 Webster] What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind? -- Philips. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Means devised in an exigency; shift. Syn: Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute. [ 1913 Webster] 199 Moby Thesaurus words for " expedient": action, ad hoc measure, advantageous, advisable, agency, answer, applicable, appropriate, apropos, art, artful dodge, artifice, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, behind- the- scenes influence, beneficial, benevolent, blind, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, chicanery, cogent, commendable, commodious, congruous, conspiracy, contrivance, convenient, correct, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, decent, demarche, dernier ressort, design, desirable, device, devices, dodge, effective, effort, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expediency, expedients, fair, fakement, famous, favorable, feasible, feint, felicitous, fetch, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, functional, gambit, game, gimmick, going between, good, good for, goodly, grand, grift, happy, healthy, helpful, hope, improvisation, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intermediation, intrigue, judicious, jugglery, jury- rig, jury- rigged expedient, kind, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, laudable, likely, little game, lucky, machination, machinery, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, means, measure, mechanism, mediation, medium, meet, move, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, pertinent, pis aller, pleasant, plot, ploy, politic, political influence, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, profitable, proper, propitious, providential, prudent, racket, recommendable, recommended, recourse, red herring, refuge, regal, resort, resource, right, ripe, royal, ruse, scheme, seasonable, seemly, service, serviceable, shake- up, shift, skillful, sleight, solution, sortable, sound, splendid, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, subterfuge, suitable, tactic, tactical, tactical maneuvers, tactics, temporary expedient, timely, to be desired, trick, trickery, trump, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, well- timed, wile, wily device, wire- pulling, wise, working hypothesis, working proposition, worthwhile
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