英语词汇“expediency”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	expediency
释义	ex·pe·di·en·cy \ikˈspēdēənsē, ek-, -si\ noun or ex·pe·di·ence \-n(t)s\ (plural expediencies or expediences) Etymology: expediency from Late Latin expedientia advantage, from Latin expedient-, expediens + -ia -y; expedience from Middle English, advantage, from Late Latin expedientia 1. obsolete : haste, dispatch < three thousand men of war are making hither with all due expedience — Shakespeare > 2. obsolete : enterprise, expedition < let me hear … what yesternight our council did decree in forwarding this dear expedience — Shakespeare > 3. : the quality or state of being suited to the end in view : fitness, suitability < the whip of shame and pain could drive her … into an appreciation of the expediency of morality — Margaret Deland > 4. : cultivation of or adherence to means and methods that are opportune or temporarily advantageous as distinguished from those that are right or just; specifically : self-interest < the struggle between ethics and politics, between right and expediency, had begun — C.W.De Kiewiet > 5. : a means of achieving a particular end : expedient < had found a number of simple expediencies by which to dissolve what was once the most solemn contract of all — Hamilton Basso >
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