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UK
/ɛkspˈiːdiəns/
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[ US /ɪkˈspidiəns/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspidiəns/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
- taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others
How To Use expedience In A Sentence
- His successors proved to be no more fertile in expedience than he (Godon, p. 179). harold Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats
- I was introduced to some of the Company, and during Dinner an Argument arose between one of the Gentlemen present, and the Judge, respecting Slaves; the Judge wished that there was an immediate addition of One hundred Thousand Slaves to the State; I soon became a Party and we had a good deal of conversation on the subject I principally endeavour'd to shew the political inexpedience Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787
- For Burke, expedience and necessity was everything - it was not only inevitable but necessary that America free itself from the yoke of English rule.
- Regarding their inexpedience and ugliness, such a word as the Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
- He wanted to take Dora at once to the menagerie, but I represented the inexpedience of their taking her about with them to the horse - fair afterwards, and made Eustace perceive that it would not do for My Young Alcides
- '_Some_ repentance must, but even the sense of the inexpedience and inconvenience of evil habits may be the first step above them, and in time the power of genuine repentance may be attained.' Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
- The problem is people aren't visiting branches as much as they used to because when you look at their core drivers in getting stuff done, namely expedience and convenience, the branch simply is no longer the best choice. Brett King: Is improving Customer Experience just too hard for banks?
- This argument may perhaps be yet more effb£lually invalidated, or perhaps entirely fubverted by denying the expedience of that pro - hibition which is produced as a;) recedent for another reftraint. Debates in Parliament
- Dubai's leadership, however, still views Abu Dhabi's dominance as matter of short term expedience, "Sabra of Eurasia Group said. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- The 'King of the Mountains' was convinced by the scene that had just taken place of the inexpedience of retaining the prisoners alive. A Modern Telemachus