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Appropriate to a purpose.
(adjective)
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Serving to promote one's interest: was merciful only when mercy was expedient.
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Based on or marked by a concern for self-interest rather than principle; self-interested.
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Obsolete Speedy; expeditious.
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Something that is a means to an end.
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