Both Uses of
expedient
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- He needed a little time to convince her about such a strange expedient,
Chpt 11 *expedient = a practical action that accepts tradeoffs due to circumstances
- Just as he never believed that Mauricio Babilonia had gone into the yard to steal chickens, but both expedients served to ease his conscience, and thus he could go back without remorse under the shadow of Petra Cotes, where he revived his noisy revelry and unlimited gourmandizing.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(expedient) a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical