expediency
[ik-spee-dee-uh n-see]
- the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
- a regard for what is politic or advantageous rather than for what is right or just; a sense of self-interest.
- something expedient.
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Also ex·pe·di·ence.
Origin of expediency
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Examples from the Web for expedience
Contemporary Examples
Still, Clinton gets it, at least theoretically or just as a matter of expedience, and so too does Rubio.
It is likely that a similar phenomenon of expedience translating into better health governs other diseases as well.
I'm making my decisions based on stress and expedience and my gut and who's pouting and who's crying.
Historical Examples
Expedience is that which is good for the community, and good for every individual in it.
Thoughts on the Present DiscontentsEdmund Burke
Whatever duty and expedience require to be done, we are willing to do.
The Impending Crisis of the SouthHinton Rowan Helper
Justice is his first guide, the second law of his actions is expedience.
What but the expedience of a law that will never be executed?
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10.Samuel Johnson
He will show that such things which in expedience ought not to have been done were unavoidable, and therefore to be excused.
The Brothers' WarJohn Calvin Reed
expediency
expedience
- appropriateness; suitability
- the use of or inclination towards methods that are advantageous rather than fair or just
- another word for expedient (def. 3)
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Word Origin and History for expedience
n.
mid-15c., "advantage, benefit," from Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from expedientem (see expedient). Related: Expediency (1610s).
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