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expedience | x |

As a noun expedience

is (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.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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 * * *

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----