Adjective: expedient ik'spee-dee-unt
- Serving to promote your interest
"was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
- Appropriate to a purpose; practical
"in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
- A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
"Using a loophole in the tax code was seen as an expedient to avoid paying their fair share"
Derived forms: expedients
See also: advantageous, carpetbag, carpetbagging [informal], convenient, favorable [US], favourable [Brit, Cdn], opportunist, opportunistic, politic, timeserving, useful, utile
Antonym: inexpedient
Encyclopedia: Expedient