'Expedience' definitions:

Definition of 'expedience'

From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpediency]
noun
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience]

Definition of 'Expedience'

From: GCIDE
  • Expedience \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 or principle. [1913 Webster]
  • Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. --Cogan. [1913 Webster]
  • To determine concerning the expedience of action. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]