'Expediency' definitions:
Definition of 'expediency'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpediency]
Definition of 'Expediency'
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]
Synonyms of 'expediency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appositeness,
- appropriateness,
- aptness,
- careworn,
- convenience,
- dernier ressort,
- design,
- expedient,
- fitness,
- makeshift,
- measure,
- meetness,
- order,
- propitiousness,
- propriety,
- recourse,
- resort,
- rightness,
- shift,
- step,
- stopgap,
- strategy,
- substitute,
- suitability,
- suitableness,
- surrogate,
- tactic