expediency
noun
the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
expediencies
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pluralof expediency.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
In le Carré’s novels, people who long ago became spies out of patriotism or some other strain of idealism find themselves hopelessly compromised by the expediencies of the work itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018
The film examine three discrete chapters in Jobs' life, and some believed that, whatever narrative expediencies it provided, that structure could be a liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
Mr. Murswiek criticized the central bank for viewing “economic expediencies as the only thing worth caring about.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Poor pathetic things of the fancy though his decrees may be, he cannot live without their expediencies.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
