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What (who) is expedient - definition
AMERICAN MEDIA COMPANY
Landmark Communications; Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC; The Leader-Union; Landmark Media Enterprises LLC; Expedient; Landmark Community Newspapers; Vandalia Leader-Union
expedient
[?k'spi:d??nt, ?k-]
¦ adjective
1. convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral.
2. suitable or appropriate.
¦ noun a means to an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper.
Derivatives
expedience noun
expediency noun
expediently adverb
Origin
ME: from L. expedient-, expedire (see expedite).
expedient
(expedients)
1.
An expedient is an action that achieves a particular purpose, but may not be morally right.
Surgical waiting lists were reduced by the simple expedient of striking off all patients awaiting varicose vein operations...
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of -ing
2.
If it is expedient to do something, it is useful or convenient to do it, even though it may not be morally right.
Governments frequently ignore human rights abuses in other countries if it is politically expedient to do so.
ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf
expedient
adj. expedient to + inf. (sometimes it is expedient to make concessions)
Wikipedia
Landmark Media Enterprises
Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC (a spinoff of Landmark Communications, Inc.) is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia specializing in newspaper publishing, Internet publishing and software.
Examples of use of expedient
1. He has mostly been expedient or, more pointedly, cynical.
2. "In this period, privatizing strategic assets is not expedient," Kinakh told reporters.
3. "To deal with people who own five flats, a progressive tax is expedient," he said.
4. I overcame my family‘s objections by the simple expedient of not telling them.
5. Iran played a major role in brokering a politically expedient deal between Sadr and the government.