expediency 的定义
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.
expediency 近义词
stopgap
expediency 的近义词 6 个
appropriateness
expediency 的近义词 9 个
expediency 的反义词 3 个
更多expediency例句
- The House arrived at that number because of political expediency — and it has stayed there because of it, too.
- The 14 members of the panel have spent the past several months grappling with questions about balancing fairness and expediency.
- The only reason, the only thing that changed is the political expediency.
- These all-clear fliers are filtered through special lines for expediency.
- He appeared to be just a brave and decent impulse away from speaking out where political expediency has too often kept him silent.
- But in our polarized era, memory is short and policy consistency often takes a backseat to partisan expediency.
- On one hand, it seems oddly principled of Romney, a candidate who has always been guided by expediency when it comes to abortion.
- The troops are acutely attuned to signs of political expediency.
- Mr. Jackson supposed that Parliament had a right to tax America, but he much doubted the expediency of the present act.
- But Nature's voice is far less often heard than that of her adversary, expediency.
- Hard is the contest between affection and expediency, when it is raised by the question of circumstances.
- Therefore our political questions have been questions of expediency rather than of principle.
- The justice of the measure was not less evident than its expediency.