Expedient: practical suitability to achieve an objective, prioritising efficiency and utility over abstract principle. The term expedient denotes actions appropriate and suitable to achieve a specified objective, highlighting practicality, efficiency and advisability; it may also connote reliance on utility or special advantage rather than universal right, indicating expediency can prioritise pragmatic outcomes over principled considerations when assessing fitness, propriety and suitability to the circumstances and purpose served.
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Expedient: practical suitability to achieve an objective, prioritising efficiency and utility over abstract principle.
The term expedient denotes actions appropriate and suitable to achieve a specified objective, highlighting practicality, efficiency and advisability; it may also connote reliance on utility or special advantage rather than universal right, indicating expediency can prioritise pragmatic outcomes over principled considerations when assessing fitness, propriety and suitability to the circumstances and purpose served.
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