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[ik-spee-dee-uhn-see]

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noun, 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.

Also, ex·pe·di·ence.

Origin:
1605–15; < Late Latin expedientia. See expedient, -ency

Related forms

non·ex·pe·di·ence, noun

non·ex·pe·di·en·cy, noun

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Political expediency rarely yields decisions that are clearly in the public interest.

Sadly, they're all the victims of the political expediency that comes with demonizing the group for the crimes of a few.

Then it was sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

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Political expediency rarely yields decisions that are clearly in the public interest.

Sadly, they're all the victims of the political expediency that comes with demonizing the group for the crimes of a few.

Then it was sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

Such immensity swats away any modern obsession with expediency.

One of these relates to the rightfulness or expediency of anticipating profits.

Even on grounds of expediency the actions are questionable.

There is abundant reason to doubt the expediency of making a daily mail run over a route for.

But the cost of vanity and political expediency is high.

It has long embodied power, political expediency and ideals of progress.

Worse than sloppiness was the cynicism and political expediency that infected the government's decision-making.

It is a tale of greed, vanity, myopia and expediency that is all the more damning for its refusal to moralize.

But for reasons of political expediency they have stayed aloof.

The sentences raise the question whether or not political expediency ruled over justice.

Politicians are always willing to sacrifice economic sense to political expediency to some extent.

But that would require the triumph of principle over expediency.

However, ideology is one thing, expediency is another.

The stay of execution had a lot to do with political expediency.

Expediency is surely no excuse for downstreaming board structures, as you seem to suggest.

The constant theme of this book is the tension between the demands of justice and the victims and those of political expediency.

The issues are put beyond us not as a matter of urgent redress because of impending hiatus but because of expediency.

The three successive governments have governed by the logic of ethnic expediency.

Combe and other loan-industry experts say a desire for expediency can sometimes outweigh the best of intentions.

For the students, it was a bitter lesson in political expediency and a reminder of the strength of the anti-reserve lobby.

The end result was haphazard at best and often had more to do with expediency than aesthetics.

The same expediency that television uses to get to the punch line is used in fashion, where.

But expediency should not be our main priority when it comes to schools.

The company said it had settled for reasons of expediency and denied any.

But some scorned the move as blatant political expediency days before the election.

But, again, they could be justified for reasons of political expediency.

The company said it had settled for reasons of expediency and denied any wrongdoing.

He elevates cold-blooded expediency over the principles of established international law.

Now, it seems, principle has given way to expediency.

Come the ceremony, expediency was kicked into touch.

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expediency or expedience (ɪkˈspiːdɪənsɪ)

—n , pl -encies, -ences
1.	appropriateness; suitability
2.	the use of or inclination towards methods that are advantageous rather than fair or just
3.	another word for expedient

expedience or expedience

—n

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