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
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
It criminalizes routine online behaviors and expediencies, like sharing passwords or violating a site’s terms of service.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 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
But the student of history must not be deceived into thinking that principles and abstract theories are not operative forces because they appear to be subordinated to the pressure of small local or temporal expediencies.
From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
