Both Uses of
expedient
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Persuasion
- and had finally proposed these two branches of economy, to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards added the happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had been the usual yearly custom.
Chpt 1 *expedients = practical actions
- She could not speak the name, and look straight forward to Lady Russell's eye, till she had adopted the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the attachment between him and Louisa.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(expedient) a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical