expedient
I
noun
agency, alternative, apparatus, appliance, arrangement, artifice, auxiliary, campaign, consilium, contributing force, contrivance, convenience, course, design, device, equipment, formula, implement, instrument, invention, machina, machination, machine, makeshift, maneuver, material, means, means to an end, measure, mechanism, medium, method, mode of procedure, plan, practice, procedure, proceeding, process, ratio, resort, resource, ruse, scheme, shift, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, stroke, subterfuge, suggestion, tactic, technique, tool, treatment, trick, undertaking, utensil, vehicle, way, wherewithal
II
index
appropriate, convenient, due (regular), effective (efficient), efficient, favorable (advantageous), fitting, functional, help, instrumentality, loophole, medium, necessary (required), opportune, plan, politic, practical, pragmatic, profitable, propitious, requisite, resource, seasonable, step, stopgap, stratagem, suitable, viable
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006