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Expedience - What does it mean?

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expedience

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
  • * Sharp
    • To determine concerning the expedience of action.
  • Speed, haste or urgency.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Making hither with all due expedience .
  • * 2008 , , Wigu: Day 13: Saturday in the Park
    • We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination!''
  • Something that is expedient.
  • (obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Forwarding this dear expedience .

    Synonyms

    * (fitness or suitableness) expediency * expediency

    Related terms

    * expede * expediency * expedient * expedite * expedition

    References

    * OED2 * * *

    Not English

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