expediency

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Expedition; haste; dispatch.

An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

expedience value practicability advantage benefit efficiency shift profit resource utility effectiveness substitute resort convenience exploitation
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Antonyms

inexpediency bore disadvantage prejudice antagonism detriment
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Hypernyms

advantage vantage

Related terms

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Phrases with the word

marriage based on expediency

Examples

Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Erwin Rommel

The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. Eric Cantor

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. Roy Hattersley

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Close letter words and terms

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