expedient

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Expedient for the industry, each has been doomed to failure.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

Janelle Cammenga, policy analyst at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, is out with a new report: Sales Tax Holidays: Politically Expedient but Poor Tax Policy 2020.

From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2020

Lime-Twigs, is another Expedient for taking of great Fowl, being Rods that are long, small, strait, and pliable, the upper part apt to play to and fro; being besmeared with Bird-lime warm.

From The School of Recreation (1696 edition) Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science of Defence by Howlett, Robert

Had not my Friend found this Expedient to break the Omen, I question not but half the Women in the Company would have fallen sick that very Night.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Expedient of the government of Pennsylvania to raise money, 345.

From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Garnier, Germain