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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. expedients: Merriam-Webster
  2. expedients: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expedients: Vocabulary.com
  4. Expedients, expedients: Wordnik
  5. expedients: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. expedients: Wiktionary
  7. expedients: Dictionary.com
  8. expedients: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expedients: Legal dictionary

(Note: See expedient as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (expedient)

adjective:  Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
adjective:  Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
adjective:  Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
adjective:  (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
noun:  A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
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