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1. Serving to promote your interest
   "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
    
2. Appropriate to a purpose; practical
   "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

1. A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

Derived forms: expedients

See also: advantageous, carpetbag, carpetbagging, convenient, expedience, expediency, expediently, opportunist, opportunistic, politic, timeserving, useful, utile

Type of: agency, means, way

Antonym: inexpedient