El jefe del personal quiere revisar mi expediente académico antes de contratarme.The personnel manager wants to review my academic record before hiring me.

b. file

Por haber perdido el expediente del paciente, los doctores no pudieron realizar la cirugía.Because they lost the patient's file, the doctors were unable to perform the surgery.

2. (legal)

a. disciplinary proceedings

Al jefe acusado de acoso le incoaron expediente.Disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the manager accused of harassment.

b. inquiry

Se abrirá un expediente en cuanto a esas acusaciones.An inquiry will be opened in relation to these allegations.

3. (method)

a. measures

Ellos recurrirán a expedientes drásticos para ganar.They will resort to drastic measures to win.

b. means

No me importa cómo, pero lo haremos por cualquier expediente que sea necesario.I don't care how, but we'll do it by any means necessary.

An adjective is a word that describes a noun (e.g. the big dog).

adjective

A word or phrase that is seldom used in contemporary language and is recognized as being from another decade, (e.g., cat, groovy).

(old-fashioned)

(opportune)

a. expedient

Yo estaba extremadamente agradecido que ella llegara en un momento tan expediente.I was extremely grateful that she arrived at such an expedient moment.

expediente

masculine noun

1. documents (documentación); file (ficha)

expediente de regulación de empleo (economics) redundancy plan, workforce adjustment plan (peninsular Spanish)

2. record (historial)

cubrir el expediente (informal figurative) to do the bare minimum
hacer algo por cubrir el expediente to do something for the sake of appearances
expediente académico academic record, transcript (United States)

3. inquiry (investigación)

abrir expediente a alguien to take disciplinary action against somebody; (castigar) to start proceedings against somebody (llevar a juicio)

EXPEDIENTE DE REGULACIÓN DE EMPLEO When a Spanish company wants to make permanent employees redundant, it is first legally required to draw up an expediente de regulación de empleo (or “ERE”) to present to the authorities. In effect, this requires official permission for redundancies which have not been agreed with workers' representatives. Between 1997 and 2002 more than 600,000 jobs were eliminated by this means.

expediente