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EXPEDIENT

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expedient I. adjectiv

adecvat, potrivit, nimerit, indicat, corespunzător, oportun; expeditiv, eficace, eficient; profitabil, avantajos; folositor, util.

expedient II. substantiv

soluţie practică; mijloc de a scăpa / de a ieşi din încurcătură; eficacitate; expedient; tertip, mijloc nepermis;

to be reduced to expedients a fi redus la expediente;

a man fertile in expedients om care ştie să se descurce;

to be fruitful in / full of expedients a fi ingenios, a şti să se descurce (în orice împrejurare).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But I could not help observing that he seemed to think he had hit upon a wonderful expedient for expressing himself in a neat, agreeable, and pointed manner, without the inconvenience of inventing conversation.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express a particular business they are to discourse on.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from Mrs. Smith—and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I did say so; and it is the name by which I think it expedient to be called at present, but it is not my real name, and when I hear it, it sounds strange to me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I blush for you, Tom, said he, in his most dignified manner; I blush for the expedient which I am driven on, and I trust I may pity your feelings as a brother on the occasion.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Such ease and such delights made her love the place and the people more and more every day; and had it not been for a dread of its soon becoming expedient to leave the one, and an apprehension of not being equally beloved by the other, she would at each moment of each day have been perfectly happy; but she was now in the fourth week of her visit; before the general came home, the fourth week would be turned, and perhaps it might seem an intrusion if she stayed much longer.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She could not speak the name, and look straight forward to Lady Russell's eye, till she had adopted the expedient of telling her briefly what she thought of the attachment between him and Louisa.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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