expedience 音标拼音: [ɪksp'idiəns]
n . 权宜,方便,私利
权宜,方便,私利
expedience n 1 :
the quality of being suited to the end in view [
synonym :
{
expedience }, {
expediency }] [
ant : {
inexpedience },
{
inexpediency }]
2 :
taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [
synonym : {
opportunism }, {
self -
interest },
{
self -
seeking }, {
expedience }]
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n .
1 .
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 }
or {
principle }.
[
1913 Webster ]
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice .
--
Cogan .
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To determine concerning the expedience of action .
--
Sharp .
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Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency ,
as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly ,
and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled . --
Whately .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Expedition ;
haste ;
dispatch . [
Obs .]
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Making hither with all due expedience . --
Shak .
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3 .
An expedition ;
enterprise ;
adventure . [
Obs .]
[
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Forwarding this dear expedience . --
Shak .
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1913 Webster ]
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "
expedience ":
advantageousness ,
agreeableness ,
appropriateness ,
auspiciousness ,
beneficialness ,
benevolence ,
benignity ,
chargedness ,
class ,
cogency ,
convenience ,
criticality ,
crucialness ,
desert ,
excellence ,
fairness ,
favorableness ,
felicitousness ,
fineness ,
first -
rateness ,
fitness ,
fittingness ,
goodliness ,
goodness ,
grace ,
healthiness ,
helpfulness ,
kindness ,
loadedness ,
meetness ,
merit ,
niceness ,
opportuneness ,
pleasantness ,
pregnancy ,
profitableness ,
propitiousness ,
propriety ,
quality ,
rewardingness ,
rightness ,
ripeness ,
seasonableness ,
skillfulness ,
soundness ,
suitability ,
superiority ,
timeliness ,
usefulness ,
validity ,
value ,
virtue ,
virtuousness ,
wholeness ,
worth
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