expedient

• adj.好都合な、好都合な、好都合な
• n. 好都合; 偶発性

expediteの「急ぐ」から。expedient, expediencyに由来する。中国のexpediencyと比較される。

expedient (adj.)

late 14c., "advantageous, fit, proper to a purpose," from Old French expedient "useful, beneficial" (14c.) or directly from Latin expedientem (nominative expediens) "beneficial," present participle of expedire "make fit or ready, prepare" (see expedite). The noun meaning "a device adopted in an exigency, that which serves to advance a desired result" is from 1650s. Related: Expediential; expedientially (both 19c.).

Expedient, contrivance, and device indicate artificial means of escape from difficulty or embarrassment; resource indicates natural means or something possessed; resort and shift may indicate either. [Century Dictionary]

1. The disease was controlled by the simple expedient of not allowing anyone to leave the city.

誰も出城を禁止する簡単な応急処置によって病気をコントロールした。

2.The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.

政府は審査を少し緩和することが望ましいことを発見した。

3.It was expedient to retire gracefully.

体面の譲歩は方便だと言える。

4.Do whatever is expedient .

便宜的に処置し、便宜的にどうすればよいか。

5.I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.

クレジットカードを破棄するという簡単な方便で、私は自分の買い物支出を大幅に削減しました。