All 3 Uses of
expedient
in
Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- The ingenious Mrs Honour having applied all her oratory to dissuade her mistress from her purpose, when she found her positively determined, at last started the following expedient to remove her clothes, viz.†
Book 7expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical; or an action that is speedy or practical
- "No;" answered Nightingale, "not if I can give you an expedient by which you may at any time get out of the trap."
Book 15 *expedient = speedy or practical way
- —"What expedient can that be?" replied Jones.†
Book 15expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical; or an action that is speedy or practical
Definition:
a practical action -- especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical