About The Word Expedience
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Expedience
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What's The Definition Of Expedience?
[n] taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
[n] the quality of being suited to the end in view Synonyms | Synonyms for Expedience: expediency | opportunism | self-interest | self-seeking Related Terms | Find terms related to Expedience: advantageousness | agreeableness | appropriateness | auspiciousness | beneficialness | benevolence | benignity | chargedness | class | cogency | convenience | criticality | crucialness | desert | excellence | fairness | favorableness | felicitousness | fineness | first-rateness | fitness | fittingness | goodliness | goodness | grace | healthiness | helpfulness | kindness | loadedness | meetness | merit | niceness | opportuneness | pleasantness | pregnancy | profitableness | propitiousness | propriety | quality | rewardingness | rightness | ripeness | seasonableness | skillfulness | soundness | suitability | superiority | timeliness | usefulness | validity | value | virtue | virtuousness | wholeness | worth See Also | advantage | selfishness | vantage Expedience In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, n.
1. 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.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
--Cogan.
To determine concerning the expedience of action.
--Sharp.
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. --Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak.
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