Serving to promote or urge forward; quick; expeditious.Direct; without deviation or unnecessary delay.Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances; advisable.Conducive or tending to present advantage or self-interest.Synonyms and Advisable, desirable, advantageous, profitable, useful, best, wise.n. That which serves to promote or advance a desired result; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end.n. Means devised or employed in an exigency; a shift; a device.n. Synonyms Expedient, Resource, Resort, Contrivance, Device, Shift. 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. A shift is a temporary, poor, or desperate expedient. When one's resources begin to fail, one has recourse to contrivances, expedients, etc., and finally to almost any shift. Resort is less often applied to the thing resorted to than to the act of resorting. Contrivance and device suggest most of ingenuity.