temporary expedient

1. 1.

   an unplanned expedient

   Synonymsimprovisation

   Broaderexpedient

Questions about temporary expedient

What does temporary expedient mean?

temporary expedient means "an unplanned expedient".

What is another word for temporary expedient?

Close synonyms include improvisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is temporary expedient a common word?

temporary expedient is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.