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expedient
1. adj. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
2. adj. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
3. adj. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
4. adj. (obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.
5. n. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.

Example Sentences

I judged it expedient to go along with the idea of a truce.

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