expedientist

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Etymology

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expedient +‎ -ist

Noun

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expedientist (plural expedientists)

  1. A person who favors an expedient approach.
    • quoted in 1928, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, Immigration from Countries of the Western Hemisphere (page 48)
      It would seem an opportune time to consider the important future values concerned in a matter of this sort, which are, as we say, more far-reaching than the expedientists' views seem to take into account.