Difference between Expedient and Opportunist

EXPEDIENT vs OPPORTUNIST: NOUN

A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Something that is a means to an end, especially when based on self-interest.
Something contrived or used to meet an urgent need.
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
That which serves to promote or advance a desired result; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end.
Means devised or employed in an exigency; a shift; a device.
Synonyms Expedient, Resource, Resort, Contrivance, Device, Shift. Expedient, contrivance, and device indicate artificial means of escape from difficulty or embarrassment; resource indicates natural means or something possessed; resort and shift may indicate either. A shift is a temporary, poor, or desperate expedient. When one's resources begin to fail, one has recourse to contrivances, expedients, etc., and finally to almost any shift. Resort is less often applied to the thing resorted to than to the act of resorting. Contrivance and device suggest most of ingenuity.
Means devised in an exigency; shift.

One who advocates or practices opportunism.
In general, one who takes advantage of opportunities as they occur; one who waits for an opportune time before attempting to bring into practice or to urge upon others the principles or beliefs which he holds; one who makes the best of circumstances as they arise; hence, one who is without settled principles or consistent policy: opposed to extremist.
[capitalized] In French politics, a member of that section of the Republican party which believes in regulating political action in accordance with circumstances, and not by dogmatic principles.
One who takes advantage of any opportunity to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
A person who places expediency above principle
Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance his own situation, placing expediency above principle.

Serving to promote your interest
Suitable or efficient for accomplishing a purpose.
Convenient but based on a concern for self-interest rather than principle.
Speedy; expeditious.
Appropriate to a purpose; practical
Quick; expeditious.
Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right or principled.
Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.
Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.

Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

Serving to promote or urge forward; quick; expeditious.
Direct; without deviation or unnecessary delay.
Tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances; advisable.
Practical
Appropriate to a purpose
A means to an end
Conducive or tending to present advantage or self-interest.
Synonyms and Advisable, desirable, advantageous, profitable, useful, best, wise.

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the political party known as the Opportunists; hence [lowercase], of or pertaining to opportunism, or the observance of a waiting policy; making the best of circumstances while waiting for a suitable time for the proper carrying out of one's views.

Apposite, Advisable, Effective, Desirable, Purposive, Convenient, Sensible, Expeditious, Expediency, Timeserving, Opportunist, Opportunistic, Politic, Advantageous, Appropriate

Liar, Panderer, Demagogue, Idealist, Intriguer, Conniver, Egotist, Hypocrite, User, Convenience, Vulture, Self seeker, Timeserving, Expedient, Opportunistic

Apposite, Advisable, Effective, Desirable, Purposive, Convenient, Sensible, Expeditious, Expediency, Timeserving, Opportunist, Opportunistic, Politic, Advantageous, Appropriate

Grafter, Fantasist, Liar, Panderer, Demagogue, Idealist, Intriguer, Conniver, Egotist, Hypocrite, User, Convenience, Timeserving, Expedient, Opportunistic

Postal mail is not considered an expedient method.
He, at last, to the following expedient flew.
The success of this expedient surpassed my expectation.
One response is to take the expedient path.
It is very expedient that i upgrade myself.
NAV as a practical expedient for comparative years.
SSDI is integral to successful and expedient applications.
Those things therefore that are expedient and profitable to those cities, are the only things that are good and expedient for me.
Then they gave way to every inclination, and cared not to ask what was expedient, for nothing was expedient.
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Expecting the easement opportunist when lacks clause granting an enforceable.
What they have done in KL is just being opportunist.
Eisenstein as an opportunist, uncritical servant of the ruling power.
The ability to obtain unauthorized access is often opportunist.
He also accused Rubio of being a political opportunist.
The sort of opportunist vicar peter appears to be!
They are that detestable combination of opportunist and hypocrite.
Opportunist pranks cherubs cares indefensible patterns debits lustreless.
An opportunist from St Kilda or the Cross?
Opportunist though she was about her career, she was never an opportunist about race.