expedient

It was expedient to retire gracefully.

It is expedient that he should go.

It is expedient that he should retire at once.

This is only a stopgap/expedient or tousy resloving measure.

The government found it expedient to relax censorship a little.

either side could break the agreement if it were expedient to do so.

exhausted every expedient and finally filed suit;

The Era of Procrastination, of Half-Measures, of Sooting and Baffing Expedients, of Delays, is Coming to its Close.

There are others to whom Idleness dictates another expedient, by which life may be passed unprofitably away without the tediousness of many vacant hours.