Expedient

Definitions: Expedient

Expedient

Adjective

1. Serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient".

2. Appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty".

Noun

1. A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one.

Date "expedient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Expedient

Synonym: resource. (additional references)

Antonym: inexpedient (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Expedience	Verb: be expedient; Adjective:; suit; (agree); befit; suit the time, befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion, befit the occasion.
	Adjective: expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming; befitting; Verb: opportune; (in season); in loco; suitable; (accordant); applicable; (useful).
Instrumentality	Instrument; expedient; (plan); means.
Intelligence Wisdom	Wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well-thought-out, well-planned, well-judged, well-advised; prudent, politic; expedient.
Occasion	Suit the occasion; (be expedient).
Plan	Contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift; (substitute); last shift; (necessity).
Substitution	Substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
Utility	Adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Expedient

English words defined with "expedient": Advisable-ness, Aftergame ♦ crutch ♦ Dernier ressort ♦ expediently, Expediment ♦ improvisation, inadvisably ♦ Overagitate ♦ Sharp practice, Stop-gap ♦ temporary expedient, To fall back upon, To have two strings to one's bow, To put on one's trumps, To put to one's trumps, To ride and tie, To skin a flint, To think good. (references)

Specialty definitions using "expedient": Apostate ♦ decussate texture ♦ hasty breaching ♦ Lyme-hound ♦ neuromuscular coordination ♦ packet switching ♦ refuge ♦ Sabbath, SUPERVISOR, FLAME CUTTING. (references)

Etymologies containing "expedient": Expediment. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Expedient" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (despatch clerk, dispatch clerk), German (shipping clerk), Romanian (expedient, makeshift, shift, substitute).

Domain	Title
Books	Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms (reference) Expedient B and E : Tactics And Techniques For Bypassing Alarms And Defeating Locks (reference) Expedient Hand Grenades (reference) Expedient Homemade Firearms : The 9mm Submachine Gun (reference) Made in Washington: Food Policy and the Political Expedient (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Expedient Videos : Basic Computer Upgrades and Repairs (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Disraeli	Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
Horace	A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
James Russell Lowell	Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient.
Steele	Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance; as good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equals.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He made haste to think of an expedient to make her forget the oath.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	My greatest apprehension was for my eyes, which I should have infallibly lost, if I had not suddenly thought of an expedient.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guinea	The government established an arbitration court in April of 1999, independent of the Ministry of Justice, to settle business disputes in a less costly and more expedient manner. (references)
Human Rights	United Kingdom	The law allows police officers to stop and search vehicles and pedestrians if a police officer of at least superintendent rank (or a chief inspector if no superintendent is available) "reasonably believes" it is expedient to do so to prevent acts of violence. (references)
Political Economy	ROMANIA	The absence of clear and expedient legal recourse to recover claims against debtors has represented a further complication for foreign investors. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: "Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly." To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week, but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized, as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment: Six days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh holystone the deck and scrape the cable. Decks are no longer holystoned, but the cable still supplies the captain with opportunity to attest a pious respect for the divine ordinance.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Various considerations also render it expedient that the terms on which foreigners may be admitted to the rights of citizens should be speedily ascertained by a uniform rule of naturalization.
John Adams	1797-1801	Domingo might safely be renewed, I took such steps as seemed to me expedient to ascertain that point.
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Still, it will not be expedient to withdraw immediately the whole of our force from that sea.
James Madison	1809-1817	How far it may be expedient to guard the infancy of this improvement in the distribution of labor by regulations of the commercial tariff is a subject which can not fail to suggest itself to your patriotic reflections.
James Monroe	1817-1825	I recommend to the consideration of Congress whether further prohibitory provisions in the laws relating to this intercourse may not be expedient.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Similar motives have rendered expedient the keeping of a like force on the coasts of Peru and Chile on the Pacific.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The difficulties of a more expedient adjustment of the present tariff, although great, are far from being insurmountable.
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	An unlawful expedient can not become a permanent condition of government.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Expedient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.64% of the time. "Expedient" is used about 213 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	51.64%	110	30,952
Noun (singular)	48.36%	103	32,137
Total	100.00%	213	N/A

Expressions using "expedient": be expedient ♦ expedient measures ♦ temporary expedient. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "expedient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mjet (agent, apparatus, device, engine, implement, instrument, intermedium, mean, means, medium, mode, modus, recipe, route, tool, touch, vehicle, wherewithal), i volitshëm (convenient, handy, practical, propitious), i përshtatshëm (adapt, adequate, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, canny, comely, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, elastic, eligible, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, proper, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited). (various references)

Arabic		‏مناسب (adequate, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, conformable, congruent, congruous, convenient, due, favorable, favourable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, opportune, pat, proper, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, proper, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏نفعي (opportunist, pragmatic, profiteer), ‏وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic, twist), ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, twist, wile). (various references)

Bulgarian		способ (contrivance, device, key, knack, means, mode, modus, procedure, resource, way), хитрина (catch, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, dodgery, fetch, foxiness, legerdemain, shift, trickery, wheeze, wile, wiliness), целесъобразен (advisable), начин (fashion, how, instrumentality, manner, means, method, mode, modus, resource, scheme, sort, style, way, wise), изгоден (advantageous, creamy, favorable, favourable, gainful, good, inexpensive, lucrative, paying, plummy, profitable, remunerative). (various references)

Chinese		适�" (Advisable, Appropriate, Due, Proper, Proprieties, Propriety, suitable), 得當 . (various references)

Czech		vhodný prostředek, vhodný (adequate, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, convenient, desirable, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, good, happy, matching, opportune, presentable, proper, propitious, right, sufficient, suitable, suited), výhodný (advantageous, favorable, favourable, paying, profitable, useful), prospìšný (beneficial, good, rewarding, salutary, serviceable, subservient), pomoc z nouze (makeshift), úèelný (advisable, functional, pragmatic, sensible, useful). (various references)

Danish		for mindre ejendomme er det hensigtsmaessigt at deltage i mejetaerskerfaellesskab,eller lade hoesten udfoere af en maskinstation (for combine-harvesting on small farms participating in a machinery syndicate or working with contractors can be expedient). (various references)

Dutch		voor kleine bedrijven is het raadzaam een maaidorser te betrekken van een cooeperatie of van een loonwerker (for combine-harvesting on small farms participating in a machinery syndicate or working with contractors can be expedient). (various references)

Farsi		مناسب (Able, Adaptable, Adequate, Apposite, Appropriate, Apt, Becoming, Convenient, Fit, Material, Meet, Moderate, Opportune, Pertain, Proper, Relevant, Suitable, Winsome), مقتضی (Advisable, Appropriate, Due, Just, Material, Meet, Suitable), مصلحت (Advice, Interest, Rede), تهورامیز. (various references)

Finnish		tarkoituksenmukainen (adapted to its purpose, appropriate, serving the purpose), sopiva (appropriate, convenient, decent, fit, fitted, fitting, opportune, proper, suitable, suited, timely, well-timed), neuvo (advise, way), keino (means, remedy, resources, way), hätäkeino (emergency measure, makeshift), apuneuvo (means, medium), apukeino (means, medium). (various references)

French		expédient, opportuniste, opportun, biais. (various references)

German		zweckmäßig (advisable, convenient, effective, expediently, functional, purposeful, purposive, suitable, useful), angebracht (advisable, apposite, appropriate, fit, fitting, fittingly, proper, reasonable). (various references)

Greek		κατάλληλοσ (appropriate, apt, convenient, fit, proper, right, suitable), σκόπιμοσ (deliberate, desirable, intentional, purposeful, purposive, wilful, willful), μέσο (agency, agent, channel, instrumentality, mean, means, medial, middle, midst, resource, vehicle, way), ωφέλιμοσ (salutary, useful), τέχνασμα (artifice, claptrap, contraption, contrivance, deception, device, maneuver, manoeuvre, quirk, ruff, ruse, sleight, subterfuge, trick, wile). (various references)

Hebrew		תועלתי (advantageous, beneficial, practicable, useful), תחבול�" (artifice, fetch, finesse, hatch, machination, mean, ruse, scheme, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, thingumajig thingumabob, trick, wile), אמצעי (aid, facility, implement, indirectly, mean, means, measure, median, medium, mid, middle, organ, resort, resource, resources, step, steppingstone, tool), כ�"אי (rewarding, worth it, worthwhile, worthy), רצוי (acceptable, appeasement, desirable, favourable, placation, propitiation, satisfaction, welcome). (various references)

Hungarian		fortély (cunning, deception, dodge, finesse, guile, hanky-panky, knack, ruse, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, wile, wiliness), kisegítő eszköz (shift), kiút (egress, get-out, loophole, out of the woods, resource), célszerű (practical), alkalmas (able, applicable, appropriate, apt, capable, competent, congenial, convenient, eligible, feasible, fit, fitting, friendly, handy, of use, opportune, practical, qualified, right, suitable, susceptible, the ground plays well, timely), ajánlatos (advisable). (various references)

Indonesian		upaya (efforts, means), pendayaan (deceit, trick, way out). (various references)

Italian		espediente (centre, contrivance, device, dodge, makeshift, means, middle, resource, resources, shift), sotterfugio (elusion, evasion, subterfuge, tergiversation), ripiego (makeshift, second best, stopgap), mezzo ingegnoso, conveniente (agreeable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, cheap, convenient, fit, fitting, good, right, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		臨機 , 方便 (instrument, means), 捷径 (shortcut), 便法 (handy method, shortcut), 好都合 (convenient, expedience, favorable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しょうけい (a short break or breather, accession, aspiration, brief recess, commerce and economics, fine scenery, hieroglyphics, inheritance, lane, longing, path, recess, scenic view, short rest, shortcut, subtotal, succession, type of character representing pictures), べ�"ぽう (handy method, shortcut), ほうべ�" (instrument, means), �"うつ�"う (convenient, expedience, favorable), り�"き (jealousy). (various references)

Manx		vondeishagh (advantageous, beneficial, gainful, lucrative, profitable, utilitarian). (various references)

Norwegian		utvei, hensiktsmessig. (various references)

Pig Latin		expedientay

Portuguese		recurso (appeal, asset, healthy, means, obsecration, recourse, refuge, remedy, resort, resource, resources, shift, wherewith), meio (average, center, centre, device, entr'acte, environment, environmental, half, handle, interment, mean, means, medium, middle, midst, navel, organ, remedy, resource, resources, surroundings, vehicle, wherewith), conveniência (convenience, decorum, expediency, felicity, fitness). (various references)

Romanian		expeditiv (efficient, expeditious, expeditively, operative, rough and ready), expedient (makeshift, shift, substitute), eficacitate (effectiveness, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficiency), indicat (adequate, proper), folositor (advantageous, beneficial, effective, gainful, helpful, instrumental, of use, profitable, purposeful, salutary, serviceable, sound, subservient, suitable, useful, wholesome). (various references)

Russian		уловка (artifice, circumvention, come off, dodge, double cross, gimmick, put off, ruse, shift, shuffle, stealth, stratagem, strategem, wangle), целесообразный (practical, rational), выгодный (advantageous, fat, fruitful, gainful, lucrative, paying, profitable, remunerative). (various references)

Scottish		iomchuidh (fit, meet, proper, suitable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sredstvo (agency, decongestant, instrumentality, medium, remedy, resort), lukav poduhvat, celishodan. (various references)

Spanish		expediente (action, brief, bundle, device, dismissal, file, makeshift, means, proceedings, record, resource, shift, transcript), recurso (appeal, asset, device, grievance, protest, recourse, refuge, remedy, remonstrance, resort, resource), oportuno (acceptable, advisable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, due, felicitous, fitting, happy, opportune, Pat, pertinent, proper, relevant, seasonable, suitable, timely, well timed), conveniente (accordant, advisable, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, beseeming, convenient, decent, due, fitting, meet, proper, seemly, suitable, unisonous, useful). (various references)

Swedish		utväg (means, way out), ändamålsenlig (appropriate). (various references)

Thai		เหมาะสม (apt, become, becoming, befit, due, good, just, likely, meet, neat, seemly, suitable), ที่ให้ผลประโยชน์, วิธีที่ทำให้ประสบความสำเร็จอย่างรว�"เร็ว. (various references)

Turkish		yol (angle, approach, Avenue, channel, cutting, gateway, handle, itinerary, journey, meatus, outlet, path, road, route, tack, thoroughfare, trail, via, walk, way, weigh, wise), yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, in place, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, proper, pursuant, rightful, snappy, sound, suitable, valid, well, well-judged), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, proper, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), tedbir (caution, cautiousness, discretion, foresight, forethought, hedge, measure, policy, precaution, protection, Providence, sparingness, step), avantajlı (advantageous, favorable, favored, favourable, favoured), önlem (clampdown, countermeasure, diligence, foresight, forethought, hedge, maneuver, manoeuvre, measure, policy, precaution, prevention, preventive, protection, provision, sparingness, step), çare (aid, antidote, curative, cure, egress, expedience, expediency, healer, help, medium, obviation, redress, relief, remedy, resort, resource, shift, solution, way out), çıkarlara uygun düşen, çıkarcı (calculating, interested, mercenary, number one, politic, profiteer, self-seeker, self-seeking, sordid, utilitarian). (various references)

Ukranian		вигідний (advantageous, beneficial, lucrative, moneymaking, paying, plummy), виверт (afterthought, amphibology, amphiboly, circumvention, elusion, evasion, put off, quirk, shift, shuffle, wangle), прийом (acceptance, device, dodge, entertainment, process, social, stroke, welcome), доцільний (advisable, efficient). (various references)

Vietnamese		thủ đoạn (expediential, resource, wangle), kế (aboard, art, by, expediential, mean, meant, wheeze), chước (expediential), cách (distant, expediential, line, manner, mode, off, style). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tutus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	John Chapter 18, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hn de kaiafaV o sumbouleusaV toiV ioudaioiV oti sumferei ena anqrwpon apolesqai uper tou laou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Erat autem Caiaphas qui consilium dederat Iudaeis quia expedit unum hominem mori pro populo
Old English	990	West Saxon	Witodlice caiphas dihte þam iudeam& cwæð þæt hyt wære betere þæt an manswulte for folc.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And it was Caifas, that yaf counsel to the Jewis, that it spedith, that o man die for the puple.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Cayphas was he that gave counsell to ye Iewes that it was expediet that one man shuld dye for the people.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Now Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	John Chapter 18, Verse 14
Cebuano	Si Caifas mao gani kadto siya ang mihatag ug tambag ngadto sa mga Judio nga maoy maayo nga usa lamang ka tawo ang mamatay alang sa katawhan.
Croatian	Kajfa pak ono svjetova Židove: "Bolje da jedan èovjek umre za narod."
Danish	Men det var Kajfas, som havde givet Jøderne det Råd, at det var gavnligt, at eet Menneske døde for Folket.
Dutch	Kajafas nu was degene, die den Joden geraden had, dat het nut was, dat een Mens voor het volk stierve.
Finnish	Ja Kaifas oli se, joka neuvottelussa oli juutalaisille sanonut: "On hyödyllistä, että yksi ihminen kuolee kansan edestä."
French	Et Caïphe était celui qui avait donné ce conseil aux Juifs: Il est avantageux qu`un seul homme meure pour le peuple.
German	Es war aber Kaiphas, der den Juden riet, es wäre gut, daß EIN Mensch würde umgebracht für das Volk.
Haitian Creole	Se Kayif sa a ki te bay jwif yo konsèy sa a: Li pi bon pou nou si yon sèl moun mouri pou tout pèp la!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Dan dialah yang sudah menasihati para penguasa Yahudi bahwa lebih baik satu orang mati untuk seluruh bangsa.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Adapun Kayafas itulah yang memberi nasehat kepada orang Yahudi, bahwa berfaedahlah jikalau satu orang mati akan ganti kaum itu.
Italian	Caifa poi era quello che aveva consigliato ai Giudei: «E' meglio che un uomo solo muoia per il popolo».
Latvian	Bet Kaifa bija tas, kas jûdiem deva padomu, ka labâk vienam cilvçkam mirt tautas dçï.
Maori	Na ko Kaiapa tenei nana ra i whakatakoto te whakaaro ki nga Hurai, he pai ke ki te mate te tangata kotahi mo te iwi.
Norwegian	Men det var Kaifas som hadde gitt jødene det råd at det var gagnlig at ett menneske døde for folket.
Portuguese	Ora, Caifás era quem aconselhara aos judeus que convinha morrer um homem pelo povo.
Rumanian	Wi Caiafa era celce dqduse Iudeilor sfatul acesta: ,,Este de folos sq moarq un singur om pentru norod.``
Shuar	Kaipiaska nuik "¿Ashí Israer-shuar mesertin pénkerkait. Antsu aya chikichik shuar Jákatin pénkerchakait?" timia Núiti.
Spanish	Caifás era el que había dado consejo a los judíos de que convenía que un hombre muriese por el pueblo.
Swahili	Huyo Kayafa ndiye aliyekuwa amewashauri Wayahudi kwamba ni afadhali mtu mmoja afe kwa ajili ya taifa.
Swedish	Och det var Kaifas som under rådplägningen hade sagt till judarna, att det vore bäst om en man finge dö för folket.
Uma	Kayafas toe-mi to mpo'uli' -raka topoparenta to Yahudi wengi: "Agina-pi tau hadua mate mposampei ntodea."
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "expedient": expediential, expediently, expedients. (additional references)
	Words ending with "expedient": inexpedient. (additional references)
	Words containing "expedient": inexpediently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Expedient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espedient, expedent, expediant, expediens, expediente, expedienty, expeedient, expendient, expodent, exresident. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "expedient" (pronounced ikspē"dēunt)
6	-ē" d ē u n t	disobedient, ingredient, obedient.
5	-d ē u n t	radiant.
4	-ē u n t	affiant, ambient, defoliant, deviant, incipient, invariant, lenient, luxuriant, miscreant, nutrient, percipient, prescient, prurient, recipient, salient, subservient, variant.
3	-u n t	abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-p-t-x"
	-1 letter: expedite.
	-3 letters: deepen, dipnet, endite, exited, expend, extend, peened, peined.
	-4 letters: dexie, diene, exine, index, inept, nixed, pined, teind, tepee, tepid, tined.
	-5 letters: deep, deet, dene, deni, dent, diet, dine, dint, dipt, dite, edit, eide, epee, exit, need, neep, next, nide, nite, nixe, peed, peen, pein, pend, pent, pied, pine, pint, teed, teen, tend.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-p-t-x"
	+1 letter: expedients.
	+2 letters: expediently, expenditure, inexpedient.
	+3 letters: expediential, expenditures, experimented.
	+4 letters: inexpediently.
	+5 letters: hyperextending.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.