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expediency 音標拼音: [ɪksp'idiənsi] n. 權宜,方便,私利 權宜,方便,私利 expediency n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [ synonym: { expedience}, { expediency}] [ ant: { inexpedience}, { inexpediency}] 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] 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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