expedients
Meaning of expedients
- a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral.
the current policy is a political expedient
late Middle English: from Latin expedient- ‘extricating, putting in order’, from the verb expedire (see expedite).
Information about expedients
- It is a name.
- The singular form of expedients is: expedient.
- Languages in which expedients is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of expedients
ex-pe-di-ents
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- expedients is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
expedients synonyms
Meaning a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose:
Meaning an action or system by which a result is achieved; a method:
Meaning a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one:
Meaning a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end:
Meaning a large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect:
Meaning a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something:
Meaning a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation:
Meaning a change of place, position, or state:
Meaning an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end:
Meaning a source of help in a difficult situation:
Meaning an action or strategy which may be adopted in adverse circumstances:
Meaning a plan, method, or trick with a particular aim:
Meaning a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function:
Meaning the use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality:
Meaning a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage:
Meaning a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful:
Meaning a plot or scheme:
Meaning a cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone:
Meaning an action intended to deceive someone; a trick:
Meaning clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others:
Meaning the action of inventing something, typically a process or device:
Meaning a temporary way of dealing with a problem or satisfying a need:
Meaning a cunning trick or dishonest act, in particular one intended to avoid something unpleasant:
Meaning a profitable stratagem; a dodge or scheme:
Meaning an ingenious or devious device or stratagem:
Meaning the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water:
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