expediente
Portuguese, noun/is.pe.d͡ʒiˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
expediente is spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-E-N-T-E (10 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,758th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Expediente is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “resource; expedient (something that one uses to achieve an objective)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “horário de trabalho”.
What does expediente mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineexpeditious (facilitating or done with efficiency and speed)
noun
- 1
masculineresource; expedient (something that one uses to achieve an objective)
- 2
masculineerrand; expedience (journey undertaken to accomplish some task)
- 3
masculineresource (personal capacity)
- 4
masculineshift (period of time spent at work)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se daquilo que resolve um problema ou um embaraço
noun: 1. horário de trabalho 2. artimanha, meio para resolver um problema
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of expediente
- expedientes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce expediente?
- Brazil /is.pe.d͡ʒiˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil /is.peˈd͡ʒjẽ.t͡ʃi/
- Brazil /es.pe.d͡ʒiˈẽ.t͡ʃi/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to expediente
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is expediente in Portuguese?
expediente appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).