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Definition of Expedients
1. expedient [n] - See also: expedient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expedients
Literary usage of Expedients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1869)
"There have been some expedients resorted to for the purpose of enabling companies
to complete their works, without the requisite capital, ..."
2. Our Social Heritage by Graham Wallas (1921)
"CHAPTER III GROUP COOPERATION IN the last chapter I discussed certain socially
inherited expedients by which the work and thought of individual human beings ..."
3. The Elements of English Constitutional History: From the Earliest Times to by Francis Charles Montague (1903)
"Other Financial Expedients.—Distraint of Knight- hood.—Another means of exaction
was the enforcement of obsolete laws and doubtful claims of the Crown. ..."
4. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Unjust and unlawful Expedients used by Examiners: Graduation ... Unjust and
unlawful Expedients to succeed used by Competitors: An able Writer is hired ..."