expedience : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: expedience	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
expedience n the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] Antonym(s): inexpedience, inexpediency taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others Synonym(s): opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Expedience \Expe"dience\, Expediency \Expe"diency\,, 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.