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.

Compare expediency with other words:

efficiency vs. expediency

appropriateness vs. expediency

expediency vs. expedition

expede vs. expediency

expedience vs. expediency

dispatch vs. expediency

expediency vs. situation

circumstance vs. expediency

expediency vs. suitability

expediency vs. expedite

expediency vs. expedient

expediency vs. opportunist