Definitions for expedients

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expedients ex·pe·di·ent

Spelling: [ik-spee-dee-uh nt]

IPA: /ɪkˈspi di ənt/

Expedients is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in expedients (deeeinpstx).

Definitions for expedients

noun

1. a means to an end:
2. a means devised or employed in an exigency; resource; shift:

adjective

1. tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances:
2. conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right.
3. acting in accordance with expediency, or what is advantageous.

Origin of expedients

1350-1400; Middle English Latin expedient- (stem of expediēns), present participle of expedīre. See expedite, -ent

Examples for expedients

You don't know what a wonderful creature I am for expedients.

These expedients diminished a little the ardour of their thirst.

I am sure that he is shrewd, and he ought to be full of expedients.

From this we gather that his mind was fertile in expedients.

Some of the expedients adopted were harmless, though silly; others were cruel.

Now is not the time for expedients, however well intentioned.

We ought to make it convenient and pleasant by all the expedients within our power.

He was a Master of expedients; the greatest probably the world has ever seen.

This has become the writer's practice after careful trial of other expedients.

He was a great man, and full of expedients, but the position was novel.