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expedientist

expedientist noun: a person who favors an expedient approach.

Noun

expedientist (plural expedientists)

  1. A person who favors an expedient approach.
    • It would seem an opportune time to consider the important future values concerned in a matter of this sort, which are, as we say, more far-reaching than the expedientists' views seem to take into account.quoted in 1928, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration from Countries of the Western Hemisphere (page 48)

Forms of expedientist

pluralexpedientists

Origin of expedientist

From expedient + -ist.

Questions about expedientist

What does expedientist mean?
Expedientist means a person who favors an expedient approach.
What part of speech is expedientist?
Expedientist is a noun.
What is the plural of expedientist?
The plural of expedientist is expedientists.

Words near expedientist in the dictionary

  1. expediencies
  2. expediency
  3. expedient
  4. expediential
  5. expedientially
  6. expedientist
  7. expedientists
  8. expediently
  9. expedients
  10. expediment
  11. expediments

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