adjective. Suitable or efficient for accomplishing a purpose.

adjective. Convenient but based on a concern for self-interest rather than principle.

adjective. Speedy; expeditious.

noun. Something that is a means to an end, especially when based on self-interest.

noun. Something contrived or used to meet an urgent need.

Serving to promote or urge forward; quick; expeditious.

Direct; without deviation or unnecessary delay.

Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances; advisable.

Conducive or tending to present advantage or self-interest.

Synonyms and Advisable, desirable, advantageous, profitable, useful, best, wise.

noun. That which serves to promote or advance a desired result; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end.

noun. Means devised or employed in an exigency; a shift; a device.

noun. Synonyms Expedient, Resource, Resort, Contrivance, Device, Shift. Expedient, contrivance, and device indicate artificial means of escape from difficulty or embarrassment; resource indicates natural means or something possessed; resort and shift may indicate either. A shift is a temporary, poor, or desperate expedient. When one's resources begin to fail, one has recourse to contrivances, expedients, etc., and finally to almost any shift. Resort is less often applied to the thing resorted to than to the act of resorting. Contrivance and device suggest most of ingenuity.

adjective. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right or principled.

adjective. Quick; expeditious.

noun. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

noun. Means devised in an exigency; shift.

adjective. Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.

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

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

adjective. appropriate to a purpose; practical

noun. a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

adjective. serving to promote your interest

"Even speakers who were skeptical of capital controls thought there were circumstances under which they were a reasonable short-term expedient."

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