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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Hastily; quickly.
  2. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In an expedient manner

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
  2. adv. obsolete With expedition; quickly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in an expedient manner

Examples

  • “I will say again, and hold to it, that the best gun a hunter can kill an animal with expediently is the one he shoots well.”

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  • “Accordingly, she is harshly critical of those — American Jewish leaders in particular — who have "expediently" used the memory of the Holocaust to further this or that communal purpose.”

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  • “The Government "expediently" bring forward legislation to provide the governance and funding framework for NBN Co.”

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  • “In other words, Sadat -- the most hated man in the Middle East and the one who was held responsible for Egypt's precariousness, thanks to his having made peace with Israel -- had now been expediently sacrificed for the common good.”

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  • “I wish the Nuggets solved this problem more expediently, but big-business negotiations are rarely swift, harmonious endeavors.”

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  • “The justices found that the free-trade provisions of the Australian Constitution prevented the Chifley government from expediently forcing the City of Melbourne to change its banking arrangements to the considerable benefit of Canberra, and at the expense of local ratepayers.”

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  • “And how on earth — no, really! — did the anemic English manage to keep a lid on India for so long, even taking into account the connivance of the princes, whose expediently self-seeking attitudes and internal cutthroat rivalries played so effectively into the hands of the East India Company, and afterwards the extremely under-staffed India Office in Whitehall?”

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  • “Exactly: The point of the 2nd amendment, as I read it, is to assure that an armed public will exist, from which a militia can be expediently raised, even if the militia system is neglected or deliberately discontinued.”

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  • “I could argue that Moore flouts these with his cop-outs, the deus ex machina, the expediently inconsistent behaviour of characters like Starbuck and Tigh, that the result may be serviceable but it is still Just Plain Bad in terms of craft, like bad code that runs but is ridden with bugs.”

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  • “This trend does not only have the potential to deliver direly needed services more expediently, less costly, and more effectively than their more bureaucratic and more costly counterparts, but has the potential to pave the way for reconciliation of this war-fatigued nation.”

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