Expedient - перевод на Русский и значение в Английском

adjective

Involving or creating favourable circumstances that increase the chances of success or effectiveness; beneficial.

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The scheme is advantageous to your company

adjective

Giving advantages or helping to make you more successful

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Advantageous interest rates, the lower tax rate is particularly advantageous to poorer families.

noun

Clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

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An industry dominated by artifice

noun

(the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive

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Amazingly for hollywood, she seems almost entirely without artifice.

adjective

Resulting in good; favourable or advantageous.

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The beneficial effect on the economy

adjective

Tending to help; having a good effect

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Moderate exercise is really beneficial.

adjective

Helpful, useful, or good

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The improvement in sales figures had a beneficial effect/influence on the company as a whole., a st…

noun

The use of skill to create or bring about something, especially with a consequent effect of artificiality.

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The requirements of the system, by happy chance and some contrivance, can be summed up in an acronym

noun

The act of intentionally arranging for something to happen by clever planning, or something that is arranged in this way

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Because of the timing, i'm sure the salary freeze is a deliberate contrivance, not a coincidence., …

noun

A clever device or object that has been invented for a particular purpose

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We stay dry using an ingenious little contrivance called an umbrella.

adjective

Fitting in well with a person's needs, activities, and plans.

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I phoned your office to confirm that this date is convenient

adjective

Suitable for your purposes and causing no difficulty for your schedule or plans

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Would 3 o’clock be a convenient time to meet?, i shop here because it’s convenient., both men suffe…

adjective

Suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty

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Our local shop has very convenient opening hours., a bike's a very convenient way of getting around…

noun

A thing made or adapted for a particular purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or electronic equipment.

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A measuring device

noun

An object or machine that has been invented to fulfill a particular purpose

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A handheld device, a safety device, electronic/mechanical devices, he invented a device for measuri…

noun

An object or machine which has been invented for a particular purpose

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Biotech and medical devices, you should not use any personal electronic device, such as a cell phon…

adjective

Successful in producing a desired or intended result.

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Effective solutions to environmental problems

noun

A soldier fit and available for service.

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When the battles broke out, he had a total of 920 effectives

adjective

Producing the intended results, or (of a person) skilled or able to do something well

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An effective policy/strategy, we’ve found that giving away samples of our product is the most effec…

adjective

Serving to increase wealth or resources; providing money or other benefit.

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He soon found gainful employment

adjective

Providing money or something else that is useful

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Gainful employment many graduates tell of months spent in search of gainful employment.

adjective

Giving or ready to give help.

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People are friendly and helpful

adjective

Giving help

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He made several helpful suggestions.

adjective

Willing to help, or useful

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She's such a pleasant, helpful child!, i'm sorry, i was only trying to be helpful., he made several…

noun

The action of inventing something, typically a process or device.

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The invention of printing in the 15th century

noun

Something newly designed or created, or the activity of designing or creating new things

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[ c ] the mountain bike was a california invention., [ u ] the invention of the pressure cooker pro…

noun

A product or a way of doing something which has never been made or never existed before

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Turning an invention from an idea into a money-making product is a long job., a new inventions, the…

noun

A plot or scheme.

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But hollinghurst doesn't rely on tabloid-inspired plot machinations to keep the book's engine ticki…

noun

A movement or series of moves requiring skill and care.

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Snowboarders performed daring manoeuvres on precipitous slopes

verb

Move skilfully or carefully.

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The lorry was unable to manoeuvre comfortably in the narrow street

noun

A planned action that is intended to get an advantage

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This manoeuvre has the effect of rewarding those shareholders who sell at the expense of those who …

verb

Intend to convey or refer to (a particular thing); signify.

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I don't know what you mean

noun

The value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average.

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Acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples

plural noun

An action or system by which a result is achieved; a method.

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Technology seen as a means to bring about emancipation

verb

Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units.

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The amount of water collected is measured in pints

noun

A plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose.

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Cost-cutting measures

verb

Determine the dimensions of something or somebody

noun

A particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.

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A method for software maintenance

noun

A way of doing something

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New teaching methods encourage children to think for themselves., automated telephone answering ser…

noun

A particular way of doing something

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Travelling by train is still one of the safest methods of transport., debit cards are becoming the …

verb

Go in a specified direction or manner; change position.

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She moved to the door

noun

A change of place, position, or state.

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She made a sudden move towards me

verb

Change location

idiom

To decide that you will believe someone, even though you are not sure that what the person is saying is true

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She said she was late because her flight was canceled, and we gave her the benefit of the doubt.

noun

A situation in which people intentionally prevent a website from operating by sending too many requests to use it

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Even the white house's website has been the victim of denial of service attacks.

noun

The place where or the time when a product or service is used

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At the point of use the national health service remains free at the point of use for anyone who is …

noun

A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

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The un peace plan

verb

Decide on and make arrangements for in advance.

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They were planning a trip to egypt

verb

A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be achieved

noun

A plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful.

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They have been jailed for their part in a plot to defraud a swiss bank

verb

Secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action).

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The two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign

noun

A secret plan to do something that is wrong, harmful, or illegal

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The police discovered a plot to rob the bank., the novel has a complicated plot that is sometimes d…

noun

A cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own advantage.

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This was widely interpreted as a ploy to buy time in order to consolidate his position

adjective

Of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas.

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There are two obvious practical applications of the research

noun

An examination or lesson in which theories and procedures learned are applied to the actual making or doing of something.

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It means they are on their own on the final hurdle of a seemingly endless slog of course work, mock…

adjective

Relating to actual experience or to the use of knowledge in activities rather than to knowledge only or ideas

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I know you’ve been trained as a teacher, but do you have any practical teaching experience?, you’ve…

adjective

Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.

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A pragmatic approach to business ethics

adjective

Based on practical judgments rather than principles

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He made a pragmatic decision to settle the lawsuit because in the end it would cost more to try it …

adjective

Solving problems in a sensible way that suits the conditions that really exist now, rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules

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In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.

adjective

(of a business or activity) yielding profit or financial gain.

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A professionally run and profitable company

noun

A source of help in a difficult situation.

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Surgery may be the only recourse

noun

A way of dealing with a difficult or unpleasant situation

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If the company won’t pay me, the only recourse left to me is to sue them.

noun

Help, usually in the form of an official system or process, for someone in a difficult situation

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A recourse for sb the ombudsman is a recourse for homeowners who feel let down by their estate agen…

noun

A stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.

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Local authorities complained that they lacked resources

verb

Provide with resources.

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A strategy which ensures that primary healthcare workers are adequately resourced

noun

Something that can be used to help you

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The library was a valuable resource, and he frequently made use of it., [ pl ] the earth has limite…

noun

An action intended to deceive someone; a trick.

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Emma tried to think of a ruse to get paul out of the house

proper noun

An industrial city and the principal port of bulgaria, on the river danube; population 156,959 (2008). turkish during the middle ages, it was captured by russia in 1877 and ceded to bulgaria.

noun

A large-scale systematic plan or arrangement for attaining a particular object or putting a particular idea into effect.

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The occupational sick pay scheme

verb

Make plans, especially in a devious way or with intent to do something illegal or wrong.

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Envious of their wealth, he schemed to bring about their downfall

noun

A plan for doing or organizing something

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The committee came up with a creative fundraising scheme., the yellow and white color scheme bright…

noun

A means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.

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There are no easy solutions to financial and marital problems

A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

noun

A plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.

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A series of devious stratagems

noun

A plan or trick to achieve something

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Barry devised several stratagems for escape.

adjective

Relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them.

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Strategic planning for the organization is the responsibility of top management

adjective

Relating to the way in which an organization, country, etc. decides what it wants to achieve and plans actions and use of resources over time to do this

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The company has grown through strategic acquisitions which have taken them into new markets., strat…

noun

An action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end.

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The minority attempted to control the council by a delaying tactic

noun

A specific action intended to get a particular result

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Oliver’s clumsy tactics doomed the plan from the start.

noun

A planned method for achieving a particular result

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I think we'll have to change our marketing tactics., the tactics used by the salesman made her unco…

noun

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.

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Gardening tools

verb

Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover).

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Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold

noun

A piece of equipment that you use to help you do a job, esp. something that you use with your hands to make or repair something

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The only tools you need for this job are a hammer and a screwdriver., we believe the new law will b…

noun

A cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.

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He's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick

verb

Cunningly deceive or outwit.

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Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards

adjective

Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion.

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A trick question

adjective

Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways.

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Aspirins are useful for headaches

adjective

Helping you to do or obtain something

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Your advice was very useful, saving me a lot of time., i was usefully occupied packing dishes all m…