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Synonyms for expediency
ɪkˈspi di ən siex·pe·di·en·cy
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Wiktionary
expediencynoun
Haste; dispatch.
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expedience
English Synonyms and Antonyms
expediency
The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.
Synonyms:
advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, valueAntonyms:
damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, wastePreposition:
The profit of labor; on capital; in business.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
expediency
Synonyms:
utility, advantage, interestAntonyms:
inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment
Princeton's WordNet
expedience, expediencynoun
the quality of being suited to the end in view
Synonyms:
opportunism, expedience, self-interest, self-seekingAntonyms:
inexpedience, inexpediency
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
expediency
Synonyms:
fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirablenessexpediency
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "expediency":
opportunism, convenience, desirability, advisability, expedience, appropriateness, expedient
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#357 | return | |
#410 | value | |
#653 | interest | |
#1162 | returns | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#2173 | improvement | |
#2314 | profit | |
#2419 | advantage | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2804 | utility | |
#5346 | convenience | |
#7517 | proceeds | |
#10318 | receipts | |
#11759 | avail | |
#16611 | usefulness | |
#22876 | appropriateness | |
#34267 | expedient | |
#38833 | desirability | |
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#74529 | opportunism | |
#82817 | advisability | |
#174287 | emolument | |
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How to use expediency in a sentence?
I said, 'That's Bernie.' That's the Bernie I know. Bernie is a class guy -- values trump political expediency. He didn't really care if it was going to help him or hurt him.
Expediency is overriding safety, taxis and limos are still required to abide by the old, more stringent rules, but Uber and Lyft have a free for all. It's become the Wild West.
The political expediency of a deal with Iran will overshadow U.S. aggressiveness on Syria ... There is a new-found understanding in Ankara about this.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
I know there's pressure on her to get that moving, but she's not the type of person to slow down an investigation or speed it up just for political expediency.
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