expedient

1. Serving to promote your interest (synset 300934824)
   "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
   also:

   • advantageous, favorable, favourable - giving an advantage
   • convenient - suited to your comfort or purpose or needs
   • politic - marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness
   • useful, utile - being of use or service
   similar to:

   • advantageous - appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
   • opportunist, opportunistic, timeserving - taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
   • carpetbag, carpetbagging - presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality
2. Appropriate to a purpose;
   Practical (synset 301819018)
   "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
   similar to: politic - marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness

1. A means to an end;
   Not necessarily a principled or ethical one (synset 100178297)
   is a type of: agency, means, way - thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
   subtypes:

   • make-do, makeshift, stopgap - something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
   • crutch - anything that serves as an expedient
   • improvisation, temporary expedient - an unplanned expedient
   • last resort, pis aller - an expedient adopted only in desperation

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