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expedience

/ik-spee-dee-uhn-see/US // ɪkˈspi di ən si //UK // (ɪkˈspiːdɪənsɪ) //

权宜之计,权宜性,权宜,权宜之策

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ex·pe·di·en·cies.

    • : the quality of being expedient; advantageousness; advisability.
    • : a regard for what is politic or advantageous rather than for what is right or just; a sense of self-interest.
    • : something expedient.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inpropriety
Antonyms
as inreadiness
as inexpediency/expedience

Examples

  • Still, Clinton gets it, at least theoretically or just as a matter of expedience, and so too does Rubio.

  • It is likely that a similar phenomenon of expedience translating into better health governs other diseases as well.

  • Two white guys defined by political expedience, professional uniforms and perfectly pomaded hair.

  • They saw the political expedience of a randy man condemning another randy man.

  • I'm making my decisions based on stress and expedience and my gut and who's pouting and who's crying.

  • Now this expedience is the desideratum to be sought, either without the experience of means, or with that experience.

  • But expedience and right are as far asunder, in truth, as is the distance from pole to pole.

  • Now this expedience is the desideratum, to be sought either without the experience of means or with that experience.

  • Every consideration of justice, expedience, and necessity, calls for such a grant.

  • Parliament has declared the expedience of these lines by having passed the bills for their formation.