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Expediency vs Reform - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between expediency and reform

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 reform is reform.

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 * * *

    reform

    English

    (wikipedia reform) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

    • Synonyms

    * reformation * amendment * rectification * correction

    Derived terms

    * monetary reform

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
    • to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
  • To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
  • (intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    • This product contains reformed meat.
    The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes —the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}

    Synonyms

    * amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaim

    Anagrams

    * former ----