LekhoriLekhoriSuitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
[T]he judges were unanimously of opinion that [...] by the common law of England, no man, not authorised by the crown, had a right to publish political news. While the Whig party was still formidable, the government thought it expedient occasionally to connive at the violation of this rule.
Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
But the Expedient, in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place.
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
To secure such a market, there is no other expedient, than to promote manufacturing establishments.
From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable,...
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