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Expediency vs Depletion - What's the difference?

expediency | depletion |

As nouns the difference between expediency and depletion

is that expediency is (uncountable) the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation while depletion is depletion.

expediency

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
  • * Cogan
    • Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
  • * Whately
    • 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.
  • (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
  • (obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
  • (countable) An expedient.

    • Synonyms

    * (suitability for a circumstance) expedience * expedience

    Related terms

    * expede * expedience * expedient * expedite * expedition

    References

    * OED2 * * *

    depletion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion
  • the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished

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