Synonyms 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.

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

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

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

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1. expediency

   Synonyms:
   utility, advantage, interest

   Antonyms:
   inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment

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1. expedience, expediencynoun

   the quality of being suited to the end in view

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

   Antonyms:
   inexpedience, inexpediency

Matched Categories

1. • Advantage

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1. expediency

   Synonyms:
   fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirableness

2. expediency

   Synonyms:
   advantage, profit, utility

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1. List of paraphrases for "expediency":

   opportunism, convenience, desirability, advisability, expedience, appropriateness, expedient

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1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.

2. Robert Menendez:

   It’s shocking. There is nothing that the Cubans have done to improve their standing, you have to earn your way up the ladder, not just have political expediency be the reason that you get moved from Tier 3.

3. Robert Brook:

   What we should not do is lessen our regulations and pose a threat to the cardiovascular health of the nation in the name of expediency or supposed economic growth or stimulus.

4. Soona Samsami:

   The notion that the Iranian regime will abandon their nuclear weapons program is misguided and a product of mullahs' duplicity and Western economic and 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.