Expedient
Expedient noun - An action planned or taken to achieve a desired result.
Usage example: he vowed to use any expedient available to get the project done on time
Means is a synonym for expedient in measure topic. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun "Expedient", when it comes to topics like resource.
Nearby Words: expediency, expedience
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Napoleon himself had half desired this deceptive expedient, by means of which he had himself once risen to power, in order that he might have an excuse for letting matters take their own course.
Source: Useful Notes / The Papal States -
The Hedge in Changeling: The Lost can serve as a means of more expedient travel between long distances, provided one is willing to enter an ever-shifting maze and brave the dangers therein.
Source: Hyperspace Is a Scary Place - If abiding by the law is the most expedient means of accomplishing a goal which is internally defined as Good, then that is what Neutral Good will do.
Source: Neutral Good
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