Synonyms for expediency
ɪkˈspi di ən siex·pe·di·en·cy

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1. expediencynoun

   Haste; dispatch.

   Synonyms:
   expedience

2. expediencynoun

   Synonyms:
   expedience

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1. expediency

   The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. expediency

   Synonyms:
   utility, advantage, interest

   Antonyms:
   inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment

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1. expedience, expediencynoun

   the quality of being suited to the end in view

   Synonyms:
   opportunism, expedience, self-interest, self-seeking

   Antonyms:
   inexpedience, inexpediency

Matched Categories

1. • Advantage

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1. expediency

   Synonyms:
   fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirableness

2. expediency

   Synonyms:
   advantage, profit, utility

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1. List of paraphrases for "expediency":

   opportunism, convenience, desirability, advisability, expedience, appropriateness, expedient

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1. Gilbert Villegas:

   Villegas says Chicago decided to pick up the speed of the program after president Trump was elected. This ordinance was already being worked on but there was a sense of expediency once the administration changed at the national level.

2. Samuel Rodriguez:

   The idea of not voting – you’re sacrificing your Christian worldview on the altar of political expediency, it is silly to talk about not voting for either candidate. Every single Christian should vote.

3. Otis Chandler:

   Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

4. Epicurus:

   Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

5. James Webb:

   Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.