expedient

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expedient

edullinen, hyödyllinen, sopiva, kätevä, diplomaattinen, tarpeellinen, yleishyödyllinen.

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Englannin sanakirja

expedient englanniksi

1. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

2. (RQ:Authorized Version)

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter willnot come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

3. (rfv-sens) simple Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.

Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.

4. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.

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8. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.

9. (rfdat) (w)

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.

10. 1861, John Stuart Mill, s:Utilitarianism Utilitarianism

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.

11. puhekieltä Quick; rapid; expeditious.

12. a 1623, (w), (w), Act II, scene 1, lines 57-61

the adverse winds / Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time / To land his legions all as soon as I; / His marches are expedient to this town / His forces strong, his soldiers confident.

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

14. 1906, O. Henry, s:The Green Door|The Green Door:

He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.

15. 2009, (w), A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 709:

Depressingly, ... the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.

16. (inflection of)

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