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

• overstrung
• overstuff
• overstuffed
• overstuffed chair
• oversubscribe
• oversubscribed
• oversupply
• oversuspicious
• overt
• overt operation
• overtake
• overtaking
• overtax
• overthrow
• overthrust fault
• overtime
• overtime period
• overtire
• overtly
• overtolerance
• overtone
• overtop
• overtrain
• overtrump
• overture