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expedient
late 14c., "advantageous, fit, proper" (adj.), from L.
expedientem
(nom.
expediens
) "beneficial," prp. of
expedire
"make fit or ready, prepare" (see
expedite
). The noun meaning "a device adopted in an exigency, a resource" is from 1650s.
