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Definition of Expediency
1. Noun. The quality of being suited to the end in view.
Generic synonyms: Advantage, Vantage
Derivative terms: Expedient, Expedient
Antonyms: Inexpedience, Inexpediency
Definition of Expediency
1. Noun. The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation. ¹
2. Noun. Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Haste; dispatch. ¹
4. Noun. An expedient. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expediency
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Expediency
Literary usage of Expediency
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"This they do ' on the general ground of justice and expediency.' The Minority
commissioners approach the subject in a sterner spirit. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"Letter to the Council from Sir George Everest, CB, On the expediency of re-examining
the Southern Portion of the Great Indian Arc of the Meridian; ..."
3. The Monthly Review (1844)
"Railway Reform; its expediency and Practicability considered. ... only of the
expediency and practicability of railway reform, but containing a copious ..."
4. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"This will explain to you the particular motive which suggested the expediency of
the loan in. question. I request a co-operation on your part in whatever ..."
5. Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified by Herbert Spencer (1865)
"Granting your assumption that right is the unknown quantity and expediency the
known one, your formula may be serviceable. But we deny your premises ..."
6. The Financial Policy of Corporations by Arthur Stone Dewing (1920)
"CHAPTER VII THE PRACTICAL expediency OF DIVIDEND DISBURSEMENTS Principles of
dividend distribution applied to concrete cases,; The small manufacturing ..."
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