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Becoming vs Expedient - What's the difference?

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Becoming is a related term of expedient.


As verbs the difference between becoming and expedient

is that becoming is while expedient is .

As nouns the difference between becoming and expedient

is that becoming is (chiefly|philosophy) the act or process in which something becomes while expedient is expedient.

As an adjective becoming

is pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous.

becoming

English

(wikipedia becoming)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, philosophy) The act or process in which something becomes.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous
  • decent, respectable

    • expedient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.
    • Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.
  • * Bible, John xvi. 7
    • It is expedient for you that I go away.
  • * Whately
    • Nothing but the right can ever be expedient , since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
  • Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
  • * 1861 , John Stuart Mill,
    • But the Expedient', in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is ' expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place.
  • (obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His marches are expedient to this town.

    Related terms

    * expede * expedience * expediency * expedite * expedition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
  • * 1906 , O. Henry, :
    • He would never let her know that he was aware of the strange expedient to which she had been driven by her great distress.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 709:
    • Depressingly, [...] the expedient of importing African slaves was in part meant to protect the native American population from exploitation.

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