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Adjective expedient has 2 senses
  1. expedient - serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
    Antonyms:     inexpedient, inadvisable
  2. expedient - appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
    Antonym:     impolitic (indirect, via politic)
,Noun expedient has 1 sense
  1. expedient - a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
    --1 is a kind of     means, agency, way
    --1 has particulars:
     makeshift, stopgap; crutch; improvisation, temporary expedient; pis aller, last resort
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