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Temporary expedient   /tˈɛmpərˌɛri ɪkspˈidiənt/   Listen
Temporary expedient

noun
1.
An unplanned expedient.  Synonym: improvisation.






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"Temporary expedient" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the operations of the Government Treasury and the business of the country and too extensive a commingling of their money, thus fostering an unnatural reliance in private business upon public funds. If this scheme should be adopted, it should only be done as a temporary expedient to meet an urgent necessity. Legislative and executive effort should generally be in the opposite direction, and should have a tendency to divorce, as much and as fast as can be safely done, the Treasury Department from ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... lips, "that I have never wronged you out of a dollar, and had no intention of wronging you now. But I am in a fearful strait. My feet have become suddenly mired, and this was a desperate struggle for extrication—a temporary expedient only, not a ...
— After a Shadow, and Other Stories • T. S. Arthur

... against you. The men who can engineer such a theft are almost as strong as you are. You've got to make every edge cut—use every weapon that's at hand. And most of all, gentlemen, you've got to stand together. No dissensions. As a temporary expedient—to keep the bank sufficiently under cover and still allow Boyne the publicity he needs—replace this money pro rata among yourselves. That wouldn't clean any of you. Announce a small defalcation, such as Clayte's bond would cover, so you could collect there; use all the ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan



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