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expediency

[ ik-spee-dee-uhn-see ]

noun

plural expediencies.
  1. the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
  2. a regard for what is politic or advantageous rather than for what is right or just; a sense of self-interest.
  3. something expedient.


expediency

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noun

  1. appropriateness; suitability
  2. the use of or inclination towards methods that are advantageous rather than fair or just
  3. another word for expedient
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of expediency1

From the Late Latin word expedientia, dating back to 1605–15. See expedient, -ency
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“I think it would be the understatement of the decade if we said that we have concerns about the expediency of federal support, not only here in California, but across the country,†Carvalho said.

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Jake Paul has mastered exploiting the expediency of securing the latter.

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The Trump Administration rolled out the vaccines in record-time through Operation Warp Speed, but the expediency of the process, along with misinformation circulating online, left many dubious of them.

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On the other hand, said Gisler, under Trump, “the economic and political expediency took precedence over the science a lot of ways.â€

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But Christians must not to let the expediency of a partisan alliance and a desire to win compromise their independence and cloud their moral judgment, he warned.

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