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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Expedience \Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, noun
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}.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. --Cogan.
To determine concerning the expedience of action. --Sharp.
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.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
expediency
noun: the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: {expedience}] [ant: {inexpedience}, {inexpedience}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "expediency": 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
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