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expedience 音标拼音: [ɪksp'idiəns] n. 权宜,方便,私利 权宜,方便,私利 expedience n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [ synonym: { expedience}, { expediency}] [ ant: { inexpedience}, { inexpediency}] 2: taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [ synonym: { opportunism}, { self- interest}, { self- seeking}, { expedience}] Expedience \ Ex* pe" di* ence\, Expediency \ Ex* pe" di* en* cy\,, n. 1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self- interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from { moral rectitude} or { principle}. [ 1913 Webster] Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. -- Cogan. [ 1913 Webster] To determine concerning the expedience of action. -- Sharp. [ 1913 Webster] 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. -- Whately. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Making hither with all due expedience. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Forwarding this dear expedience. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 55 Moby Thesaurus words for " expedience": advantageousness, agreeableness, appropriateness, auspiciousness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, chargedness, class, cogency, convenience, criticality, crucialness, desert, excellence, fairness, favorableness, felicitousness, fineness, first- rateness, fitness, fittingness, goodliness, goodness, grace, healthiness, helpfulness, kindness, loadedness, meetness, merit, niceness, opportuneness, pleasantness, pregnancy, profitableness, propitiousness, propriety, quality, rewardingness, rightness, ripeness, seasonableness, skillfulness, soundness, suitability, superiority, timeliness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, wholeness, worth
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