different between expedient vs instrumentality
expedient
English
Etymology
From Middle English expedient, from Old French expedient, from Latin expediens (stem expedient-), present participle of expedire (“to bring forward, to dispatch, to expedite; impers. to be profitable, serviceable, advantageous, expedient”), from ex (“out”) + p?s (“foot, hoof”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?spi?di.?nt/
Adjective
expedient (comparative more expedient, superlative most expedient)
- Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
- a. 1863, Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
- Nothing but the right can ever be the expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
- a. 1863, Richard Whately, Thoughts and Apophthegms
- Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
- Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
- (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.
- a 1623, Shakespeare, King John, Act II, scene i, lines 57–61:
- the adverse winds / Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time / To land his legions all as soon as I; / His marches are expedient to this town / His forces strong, his soldiers confident.
- a 1623, Shakespeare, King John, Act II, scene i, lines 57–61:
Synonyms
- advisable, desirable, judicious, politic, prudent, tactical, wise
Related terms
Translations
Noun
expedient (plural expedients)
- A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
- He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 709:
- Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.
- 1906, O. Henry, The Green Door:
Translations
Further reading
- expedient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- expedient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- expedient at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedient”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin expedi?ns.
Adjective
expedient (masculine and feminine plural expedients)
- expedient, convenient
Noun
expedient m (plural expedients)
- file, record, dossier
Derived terms
- expedientar
Further reading
- “expedient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latin
Verb
expedient
- third-person plural future active indicative of expedi?
Romanian
Etymology
From French expédient.
Noun
expedient n (plural expediente)
- expedient
Declension
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instrumentality
English
Etymology
instrumental +? -ity
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nst??m?n?tal?ti/
Noun
instrumentality (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities)
- (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
- In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
- (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
- 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
- Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
- 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
- (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
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