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What is the adjective for expediently?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs expedite and expede which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

expedient
  1. Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.
  2. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
  3. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
  4. (obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It might be expedient to keep this information to yourself.”
expedited
expeditious
  1. Fast, prompt, speedy.
  2. (of a process or thing) Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Action was taken in an expeditious manner before the public could become sufficiently informed to coalesce any opposition or provide a comprehensive debate.”
      “The system enables controllers to implement accurate, safe and expeditious approach plans that increase safety and airport efficiency.”
      “We should gather widely, glean the best ideas, implement them in an expeditious fashion, and not turn down any offer of help.”
expeditionary
  1. Of or pertaining to an expedition.
  2. (military) Intended for military operations abroad.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We must remember that the Army will always fight in a joint and expeditionary context.”
      “Arguably, this war was the first use of effects-based operations by an expeditionary force.”
      “The limited size of such expeditionary forces obviously renders them incapable of attacking Russia.”
expedite
  1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
  2. Expeditious; quick; prompt.
expediential
  1. Governed by expediency; seeking advantage.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Human beings construct their politics in terms of pragmatic, expediential goals.”
      “Action is an effort to produce certain consequences and is therefore essentially expediential.”
      “With social media, Internet access and cheaper computers however, these ideas are spreading expediential.”
expediting
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