Difference between Expedient and Opportunistic

EXPEDIENT vs OPPORTUNISTIC: NOUN

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 or employed in an exigency; a shift; a device.
That which serves to promote or advance a desired result; any means which may be employed to accomplish an end.
Means devised in an exigency; shift.
A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
Something contrived or used to meet an urgent need.
Something that is a means to an end, especially when based on self-interest.
A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

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.
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.
Quick; expeditious.
Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.
Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
Appropriate to a purpose; practical

Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
Causing disease only when the immune system of the host has been weakened, or other damage to the host provides special opportunity for invasion; -- of microorganisms or infectious diseases.
Taking advantage of situations that arise
Said of people who will take advantage of situations to advance their own interests, without regard for principles

Practical
Appropriate to a purpose
A means to an end
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.
Conducive or tending to present advantage or self-interest.
Synonyms and Advisable, desirable, advantageous, profitable, useful, best, wise.

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

Unprincipled, Randomized, Randomised, Speculation, Random, Sporadic, Accidental, Occasional, Opportunity, Opportunities, Exploitative, Speculative, Timeserving, Expedient, Opportunist

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

Unprincipled, Randomized, Randomised, Speculation, Random, Sporadic, Accidental, Occasional, Opportunity, Opportunities, Exploitative, Speculative, Timeserving, Expedient, Opportunist

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.
Advisable related to other words for expedient in other words for expedient words for expedient Guidance IFRS.

Test for infections by opportunistic organisms are offered.
Opportunistic pathogens and their biofilm Food for thought.
Stock Every Opportunistic Investor Should Snap Up Today.
There was nothing random or opportunistic about it!
This is more about opportunistic people like Rep.
Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic.
Are there any neighborhoods that you think are particularly opportunistic or that are not opportunistic?
Opportunistic culling is tolerable where the numbers are unreasonably high and warrant reductions, but you are not suggesting opportunistic culling either.
The blame game that Sachs presents is political opportunistic pandering, just not to the opportunistic scale as Trump, and from a different perspective.
However, because few of these countries collect or assess data on opportunistic screening, it is impossible to summarise opportunistic screening practice.