How to pronounce “expedient”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
• Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
• Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
• (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
• [Noun]
• A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.

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Similar Sounds

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