expediency
noun
the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
expedience
-
a variation of
expediency.
Example Sentences
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But there’s another reason successors like Graham often adopt their male predecessors’ stances: political expedience.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Steven Soderbergh is a man of both expedience and innovation.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
Rayner added that she knew this was something the housing minister wanted to tackle "with expedience".
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Either because of principle or expedience, Mazda’s product planners never fully embraced the kind of large center touch screens that dominate the dashboards of most new cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Dismantling East Computing had been a simple matter of operations, of supply and demand and expedience.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
