Antonyms for expediency
ɪkˈspi di ən siex·pe·di·en·cy

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1. expediencynoun

   Haste; dispatch.

   Synonyms:
   expedience

2. expediencynoun

   Synonyms:
   expedience

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1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, waste

   Synonyms:
   advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, usefulness, utility, value

   Preposition:
   The profit of labor; on capital; in business.

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1. expediency

   Antonyms:
   inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment

   Synonyms:
   utility, advantage, interest

Matched Categories

1. • Advantage

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. expedience, expediencynoun

   the quality of being suited to the end in view

   Antonyms:
   inexpedience, inexpediency

   Synonyms:
   opportunism, expedience, self-interest, self-seeking

How to use expediency in a sentence?

1. Prince Ali:

   I have always promoted cross-regional understanding, however the timing of this MOU between the AFC and the CAF looks like a blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote, africa’s proud football associations are not for sale and development resources belonging to national football associations should not be used by presidential candidates and confederation presidents for political expediency.

2. Otis Chandler:

   Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.

3. Justin Amash:

   True to Washington's fears, Americans have allowed government officials, under assertions of expediency and party unity, to ignore the most basic tenets of our constitutional order : separation of powers, federalism and the rule of law, the result has been the consolidation of political power and the near disintegration of representative democracy.

4. Joshua Morrison:

   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.

5. Sinan Ulgen:

   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.

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