What's the difference between expede and expediency?

Expede


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To expedite; to hasten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data are useful in expeding coronary arteriography procedures and thus improving patient care.

Expediency


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
  • (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (2) The expediency of this system has been recognised at an international level.
  • (3) The expedience of using the reference and recent years of isolates of parainfluenza type 1 viruses for serodiagnosis was demonstrated.
  • (4) We can never sacrifice fundamental fairness for political gain, and we should never value expediency over justice – especially in matters of life or death.
  • (5) There were definite benefits achieved by avoiding cancellation of elective operations, by using operating room personnel more efficiently and by expediating the surgical schedule.
  • (6) When evaluating the results of functional tests, it is expedient to use a combination of the parameters of spirography, the curve of forced expiration flow-volume and general plethysmography and in the choice of method preference should be given to the registration of the curve of forced expiration flow-volume.
  • (7) The results allowed the expediency of using laser resection techniques and Pirogov's single-row suture to be substantiated from new standpoints (standpoints of higher biological air-tightness of the anastomoses).
  • (8) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
  • (9) The data obtained are indicative of the expediency to use biohemosorption for treatment of children with purulent septic diseases.
  • (10) It seems expedient to carry out further screening of different reagents and combinations thereof capable of significantly increasing HIV virus reproduction in cell cultures which would serve as the antigen for diagnostic systems.
  • (11) The author proposes the extrapleural-extraperitoneal access through the bed of the resected XI rib as an expedient one in most cases.
  • (12) When a pacing lead becomes infected, the most expedient and successful therapy is its removal.
  • (13) These results have evidenced the expedience of using these criteria for correct identification of leukemic cells.
  • (14) Although acute aortic dissection is not commonly seen at community hospitals, expedient management of such patients can have a major impact on their survival.
  • (15) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
  • (16) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
  • (17) The expediency of introducing P. aeruginosa strains of different serotypes into the collection of cultures used for the production of pyocyaneum has been shown.
  • (18) On the basis of clinical examinations and treatment of 174 patients the authors substantiate the importance of using special and instrumental means of diagnosis as well as the expediency of exploratory laparotomy for establishing the real cause of the disease.
  • (19) The rule of law collapses into expediency unless judges are independent and self-confident, and the evidence of such judges in Putin's Russia are scant indeed.
  • (20) The clinical outcome of the injury is directly related to the expediency with which treatment is begun.

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