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What (who) is expediency - definition
expediency
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
Expediency means doing what is convenient rather than what is morally right. (FORMAL)
This was a matter less of morals than of expediency.
= convenience
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Expediency
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
·noun Expedition; haste; dispatch.
II. Expediency ·noun An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
III. Expediency ·noun 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.
Examples of use of expediency
1. Contrary assumptions amount to an enabling expediency.
2. Just prisoners released for political expediency.
3. Jewish moral resolve has been replaced by expediency.
4. She hated hypocrisy in politics, she hated expediency in politics.
5. John Salazar said his vote was driven by political expediency.