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 }]
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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 }.
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Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice .
--
Cogan .
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To determine concerning the expedience of action .
--
Sharp .
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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 .
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2 .
Expedition ;
haste ;
dispatch . [
Obs .]
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Making hither with all due expedience . --
Shak .
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3 .
An expedition ;
enterprise ;
adventure . [
Obs .]
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Forwarding this dear expedience . --
Shak .
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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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