expediency
noun
the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
expedience
-
a variation of
expediency.
Example Sentences
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While a handful of moderate dissidents are tacitly tolerated as a matter of expedience, most other heretics have been driven from the tent.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
This incident suggests that the only thing as venerably American as personal-injury claims, or political expedience, is the perverse regulation of public space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Having spent the last year feeling increasingly out of place in a world that devalues art and process over expedience and automation, watching “The Last Showgirl” felt like looking in a mirror.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
He's the closest thing they can get to a sure-fire winner, so expedience rules.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
Dismantling East Computing had been a simple matter of operations, of supply and demand and expedience.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
