expedient
About 2.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
- adjective Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
- adjective Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
- adjective Expeditious, quick, rapid.
- noun A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
Similar words
appropriate advantageous opportunistic opportunist politic timeserving convenient expediency worthwhile effective
Often followed by
to of for that and in was which is
Word family
expediently expedients
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