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  • English Word Expedient Definition 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.
  • English Word Expedient Definition Quick; expeditious.
  • English Word Expedient Definition That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
  • English Word Expedient Definition Means devised in an exigency; shift.
  • English Word Expediential Definition Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.
  • English Word Expediently Definition In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
  • English Word Expediently Definition With expedition; quickly.
  • English Word Expediment Definition An expedient.
  • English Word Expeditate Definition To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.
  • English Word Expedite Definition Free of impediment; unimpeded.
  • English Word Expedite Definition Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.
  • English Word Expedite Definition To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.
  • English Word Expedite Definition To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
  • English Word Expedited Definition of Expedite
  • English Word Expeditely Definition In expedite manner; expeditiously.
  • English Word Expediteness Definition Quality of being expedite.
  • English Word Expediting Definition of Expedite
  • English Word Expedition Definition The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
  • English Word Expedition Definition A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
  • English Word Expedition Definition An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
  • English Word Expeditionary Definition Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
  • English Word Expeditionist Definition One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
  • English Word Expeditious Definition 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.
  • English Word Expeditive Definition Performing with speed.
  • English Word Expel Definition To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
  • English Word Expel Definition To drive away from one's country; to banish.
  • English Word Expel Definition To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
  • English Word Expel Definition To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
  • English Word Expel Definition To discharge; to shoot.
  • English Word Expellable Definition Capable of being expelled or driven out.