temporary expedient
- noun
- /ˈtɛmpəˌrɛri ɪkˈspiːdiənt/
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solución temporal
- For now, they relied on a temporary expedient like a pop-up tent until they could build a more permanent structure.
Examples
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Using a generator during the power outage was a temporary expedient to keep the lights on until electricity was restored.
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What can be done, beyond the temporary expedient of switching to positrons?
Academic text (1994) -
In effect, any acceptance of the European status quo would have been for the Soviets merely a temporary expedient.
Academic text (1992) -
Even so, readers of the mainstream press question the defense of civil liberties in the Islamic press as a temporary expedient of those in search of power.
Academic text (2000) -
It was justified as a temporary expedient to reverse the effects of discrimination and exclusion.
Academic text (2002) -
"Formal educational qualifications were not required of American officer candidates, although the Army General Classification Test (AGCT), a test of learning ability originally intended as a temporary expedient.
Academic text (1995) -
Moreover, it promises to be ineffective, even if it is considered only a temporary expedient (as was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat).
Academic text (1995) -
Hauling effluent by tanker truck inland to outlying wadis is at best a temporary expedient.
Academic text (2003) -
But above all, the essential truth is that Luther and his followers by no means considered their evangelical church to be a temporary expedient on the grounds that it had no bishops in historic succession and no clergy who had undergone an ontological change that truly fitted them for their callings.
Academic text (2002) -
The committee decided to implement a temporary expedient to address the funding shortfall until a permanent solution could be found.
Synonyms
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5.6
An act of making or doing something quickly without a plan to solve a problem
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5.2
A temporary solution used until a permanent one is found
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4.3
A thing used for a short time to solve a problem in an emergency
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3.9
A quick, temporary fix that does not solve the real problem
A quick temporary solution made without care for small details
A quick, ugly fix that is not reliable
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a direct compositional combination: 'temporary' means short-lived and 'expedient' means a means or solution, so together they denote a short-term means or quick fix. This semantic assembly follows standard adjective + noun composition and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Temporary expedient joins temporary ('short-term') and expedient ('quick fix'). Imagine a plank laid across a broken bridge so people can cross for now, and that image shows why it means a quick solution used only for a short time, not a permanent fix.