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Synonyms for expediency
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  1. expediencynoun

    Haste; dispatch.

    Synonyms:
    expedience

  2. expediencynoun

    Synonyms:
    expedience

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. expediency

    Synonyms:
    utility, advantage, interest

    Antonyms:
    inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment

Princeton's WordNet1.3 / 3 votes

  1. expedience, expediencynoun

    the quality of being suited to the end in view

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

    Antonyms:
    inexpedience, inexpediency

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. expediency

    Synonyms:
    fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirableness

  2. expediency

    Synonyms:
    advantage, profit, utility

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How to use expediency in a sentence?

  1. Robert Brook:

    What we should not do is lessen our regulations and pose a threat to the cardiovascular health of the nation in the name of expediency or supposed economic growth or stimulus.

  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. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

    Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

  4. Dmitry Peskov:

    As for the Russian ambassador, the president of Russia will decide when such expediency comes.

  5. Henry David Thoreau:

    The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.


Translations for expediency

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  • Opportunität, Zweckmäßigkeit, ZweckdienlichkeitGerman
  • convenienciaSpanish
  • opportunisme, efficacitéFrench
  • opportunisme, doelmatigheidDutch

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