OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40996

expediency

/ɛkˈspiː.dɪ.ən.si/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
conveniencia
The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
Imperfet governments […] may palliate crimes upon the plea of necessity or expediency; divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; […]
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 unprinc…
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