Expedient vs. Expeditious

Expedientadjective

Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

Expedientadjective

Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.

Expedientadjective

Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.

Expedientadjective

(obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.

Expedientnoun

A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.

Expedientadjective

Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; - sometimes contradistinguished from right or principled.

Expedientadjective

Quick; expeditious.

Expedientnoun

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Expedientnoun

Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Expedientnoun

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

Expedientadjective

serving to promote your interest;

Expedientadjective

appropriate to a purpose; practical;

Expedientadjective

(of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral

Expedientadjective

(of an action) suitable or appropriate

Expedientnoun

a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral

Expeditiousadjective

Fast, prompt, speedy.

Expeditiousadjective

(of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.

Expeditiousadjective

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.

Expeditiousadjective

characterized by speed and efficiency

Expeditiousadjective

done with speed and efficiency