expediency
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛk.ˈspiː.dɪ.ən.si/
expediency
- (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
- 1810, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions and Affections of the Mind, p. 137 ↗:
- Imperfet governments […] may palliate crimes upon the plea of necessity or expediency; divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; […]
- 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric, part II, p. 214 ↗:
- Much declamation may be heard in the present day against “expediency”, as if it were not the proper object of a Deliberative Assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
- 1810, Thomas Cogan, An Ethical Treatise on the Passions and Affections of the Mind, p. 137 ↗:
- (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
- (obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
- (countable) An expedient.
- (suitability for a circumstance) expedience
- (haste, dispatch) expedience
- French: efficacité, opportunisme,
- German: Zweckmäßigkeit, Zweckdienlichkeit, Opportunität
- Portuguese: eficácia
- Russian: целесообра́зность
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