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Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: [ɪk.ˈspi.di.ənt]
ÖversättningKontext
Adjektiv
1.uygun
2.münasip
3.yerinde
Substantiv
4.yardımcımilitär

Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.
  2. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
  3. (obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.

Substantiv

  1. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.

Exempel

  • Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
  • It is expedient for you that I go away.
  • Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
  • But the Expedient, in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place.
  • His marches are expedient to this town.
  • He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
  • Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.

Böjningsformer

Pluralexpedients
Komparativmore expedient
Superlativmost expedient