expedient

Converse of object

• deem: Also to refuse or cancel any entries, to postpone or abandon the Show and relax conditions as the Society may deem expedient.
• seem: Given the warnings it would seem expedient to determine its current status.
• adopt: But if some boy was standing still and showing no sign of life, he would adopt any expedient to get his attention.
• consider: For smaller amounts, a single signatory shall suffice where the Steering Group considers this expedient.
• think: The committee may from time to time, make, repeal or amend any regulation thought expedient for the clubs benefit.

Adjective modifier

• temporary: The executor decided that lodging with Mrs Faulkner would provide a temporary expedient.
• simple: Web service security is taken care of by the simple expedient of being able to expose service points over SSL.
• short-term: Where there are special concessions made by rich countries to poorer ones, these are usually little more than short-term expedients.
• desperate: The earlier spiritualism was founded upon facts in nature, which did not need the desperate expedient of a miracle to explain.

Modifies a noun

• manner: The City of London will make every effort to ensure that your report is dealt with in an expedient manner.
• solution: However in the longer term a replacement for the expedient solution will be required.

Modifying Another Word

• politically: The re-use of existing sites would be politically expedient.

Infinitive complement

• proceed: The sea increasing Mr. Pitts, the chief Coastguard stationed at Portsoy, deemed it expedient to proceed with the life-saving apparatus.
• do: No stop plank groves were ever installed and we thought it expedient to do so.

Used with adjective complement

• deem: When sanctions were deemed expedient to fulfill U.S. foreign policy goals, they were touted by U.S. officials as indispensable.
• think: The Court of Session, having made any modifications it thinks expedient, makes an Act of Sederunt embodying the rules.
• seem: It may seem politically expedient to ignore such a problem.
• consider: It is considered expedient therefore to include these sites within the development opportunity area.

Preposition: in

• connection: The power to designate the relevant authority in Wales includes power to modify any enactment as necessary or expedient in connection with the designation.
• interest: Is the employment of the spouse or partner etc expedient in the interests of the charity?