All 10 Uses
expedient
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Cutting for Stone
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- How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency.†
Part 1 *expediency = convenient, speedy, or practical; or an action that is speedy or practical
- "See One, Do One, Teach One" was a chapter heading in his textbook, The Expedient Operator: A Short Practice of Tropical Surgery.†
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- There were so many extant surgery texts that it was surprising how popular The Expedient Operator (or A Short Practice, as it was known in some countries) had become.†
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- This man had nothing in common with Thomas Stone, FRCS, author of The Expedient Operator.†
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- But even an inebriated Ghosh could counsel Stone that what he was about to do was not the act of an expedient surgeon but an idiotic one, and that his decision was wrong, his logic illogical.†
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- In that case, guess what, Mr. Expedient Operator?†
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- If a reply came expressing any interest, she immediately mailed them Thomas Stone's textbook, The Expedient Operator: A Short Practice of Tropical Medicine.†
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- It was Thomas Stone's textbook, The Expedient Operator: A Short Practice of Tropical Surgery.†
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- When I had told her about placing the bookmark on Stone's desk as my calling card, I had read from Hema's silence that she'd known nothing about Shiva's having The Expedient Operator: A Short Practice of Tropical Surgery.†
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- Thomas Stone was once known for The Expedient Operator: A Short Practice of Tropical Surgery.†
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Definitions:
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(expedient) convenient and practical, but sometimes not the best or most moral choice
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(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."