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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. --Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action --Sharp. 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. 2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak. 3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: expedience n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: {expediency}] [ant: {inexpedience}, {inexpedience}] 2: taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: {opportunism}, {self-interest}, {self-seeking}]
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