EXPEDIENT

[ɪks`piːdjənt]

целесообразный, соответствующий, подходящий, надлежащий, выгодный

средство для достижения цели; прием, уловка

expedient: translation

action, ad hoc measure, advantageous, advisable, agency, answer, applicable, appropriate, apropos, art, artful dodge, artifice, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, behind-the-scenes influence, beneficial, benevolent, blind, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, chicanery, cogent, commendable, commodious, congruous, conspiracy, contrivance, convenient, correct, countermove, coup, course of action, craft, cute trick, deceit, decent, demarche, dernier ressort, design, desirable, device, devices, dodge, effective, effort, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expediency, expedients, fair, fakement, famous, favorable, feasible, feint, felicitous, fetch, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, functional, gambit, game, gimmick, going between, good, good for, goodly, grand, grift, happy, healthy, helpful, hope, improvisation, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intermediation, intrigue, judicious, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, kind, knavery, last expedient, last resort, last shift, laudable, likely, little game, lucky, machination, machinery, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, means, measure, mechanism, mediation, medium, meet, move, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, pertinent, pis aller, pleasant, plot, ploy, politic, political influence, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, profitable, proper, propitious, providential, prudent, racket, recommendable, recommended, recourse, red herring, refuge, regal, resort, resource, right, ripe, royal, ruse, scheme, seasonable, seemly, service, serviceable, shake-up, shift, skillful, sleight, solution, sortable, sound, splendid, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, stroke of policy, substitute, subterfuge, suitable, tactic, tactical, tactical maneuvers, tactics, temporary expedient, timely, to be desired, trick, trickery, trump, useful, utilitarian, valid, very good, virtuous, well-timed, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, wise, working hypothesis, working proposition, worthwhile

expedient: translation

expedient UK US /ɪkˈspiːdiənt/ adjective FORMAL

► helpful or useful in the situation that now exists, although perhaps not the right thing to do morally or for the future: it is expedient to do sth »

It might be expedient not to pay him until some time after the work is finished.

»

It would not be politically expedient to propose new fees.

»

The management has taken a series of expedient measures to improve the company's financial situation.

expediently /ɪkˈspiːdi^əntli/ adverb

► »

We need to find the means to take decisions both expediently and with due public consultation.

expedient UK US /ɪkˈspiːdiənt/ noun [C] FORMAL

► an action that is expedient: »

The company can save money by the simple expedient of cutting investment and hiring.

expedient: translation

▪ be, prove

▪ appear, seem

▪

It seems expedient to clarify the concept.

▪ become

▪ make sth

▪ consider sth, deem sth, judge sth, think sth

▪ find sth

▪

The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.

▪ politically

средство для достижения цели, приём; уловка

1. 1) целесообразный

2) выгодный, рациональный, подходящий, уместный

2. практически целесообразный, выгодный (а не принципиальный); соответствующий требованиям момента (а не справедливый или правильный); ловкий (о ходе, шаге и т. п.)

3. арх., библ. полезный

Expedient: übersetzung

Ex|pe|di|ẹnt 〈m. 16〉

1. jmd., der eine Sendung expediert, Versender

2. kaufmänn. Angestellter, der die zum Versand einer Ware nötigen schriftlichen Arbeiten ausführt od. überwacht

[<lat. expediens „ausfertigend“, erledigend; zu expedire „erledigen“]

Ex|pe|di|ẹnt, der; -en, -en [zu lat. expediens (Gen.: expedientis), 1.Part. von: expedire, ↑ expedieren]:

a) kaufmännischer Angestellter, der in der ↑ Expedition (4 a) eines Betriebes für die Abfertigung von Versand- u. Transportgütern zuständig ist (Berufsbez.);

b) Angestellter in einem Reisebüro, Reiseverkehrskaufmann (Berufsbez.)

Ex|pe|di|ẹnt, der; -en, -en [zu lat. expediens (Gen.: expedientis), 1. Part. von: expedire, ↑expedieren]: a) kaufmännischer Angestellter, der in der ↑Expedition (4 a) eines Betriebes für die Abfertigung von Versand- u. Transportgütern zuständig ist (Berufsbez.); b) Angestellter in einem Reisebüro, Reisebürokaufmann (Berufsbez.).

expedient [ɪkˊspi:dɪənt]

1. a подходя́щий, надлежа́щий, целесообра́зный, соотве́тствующий (обстоятельствам); вы́годный

2. n сре́дство для достиже́ния це́ли; приём, уло́вка;

средство для достижения цели; уловка.

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