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expedient
Synonyms and Antonyms of expedient
- We made the expedient decision to sell the land to whomever offered the most money.
Synonym Discussion of expedient
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- a politically expedient decision
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- a politic show of interest
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- sometimes it's advisable to say nothing
expedient
Synonyms and Antonyms of expedient
- If you're a spectator caught without rainwear at a sporting event, then a plastic garbage bag makes an acceptable, if unfashionable, expedient.
- He vowed to use any expedient available to get the project done on time.
act, action, deed, doing, feat, thing
course, procedure, proceeding, process
activity, affair, business, dealing, enterprise, event
attempt, crack, endeavor, essay, fling, go, initiative, operation, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, undertaking, whack
effort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, while, work
project, proposal, proposition
- Since there wasn't a single bandage left in our backpacks, we had to use a bandanna, our only expedient.
Synonym Discussion of expedient
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- exhausted all of their resources
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- a last resort
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- a flimsy expedient
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- desperate shifts to stave off foreclosure
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- old equipment employed as a makeshift
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- a new law intended only as a stopgap
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