All 6 Uses of

expedient
in
Atlas Shrugged

-that we must act on the expediency of the moment-you don't want to risk your job, do you?
Chpt 1.7 *

expediency = an action that is speedy or practical

It will be destroyed, because it was the best and there were men who thought it expedient to seize a share of its wealth.†
Chpt 1.7

expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical; or an action that is speedy or practical

We can't go by rigid principles, we've got to be flexible, we've got to adjust to the reality of the day and act on the expediency of the moment.†
Chpt 2.1

Go and try to pour a ton of steel without rigid principles, on the expediency of the moment.†
Chpt 2.1

-that we must act on the expediency of the moment-you don't want to risk your job, do you?†
Chpt 2.7

The explosion came, oddly, now; it was the scream of a man who would die rather than betray his idea, and it came from a man who had spent his life evading the existence of ideas, acting with the expediency of a criminal.†
Chpt 3.5

Definitions:

(1) (expedient)
convenient and practical, but sometimes not the best or most moral choice
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely, expedient can also imply that an action was taken for reasons of self-interest rather than for moral reasons.

In the sense of speedy, the word is less commonly used today than in the past; though it may still be used as in "an expedient end" or "an expedient amount of time," or "We are depending upon your expediency."