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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
expedience — mid 15c., advantage, benefit, from O.Fr. expedience, from L.L. expedientia, from expedientem (see EXPEDIENT (Cf. expedient)). Related: Expediency (1610s) … Etymology dictionary
expedience — I noun acceptability, advantageousness, appropriateness, aptness, commendableness, convenience, discrimination, expediency, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, meetness, opportuneness, practicality, pragmatism,… … Law dictionary
expédience — [ɛkspedjɑ̃s] n. f. ÉTYM. XIIIe; de 1. expédient. ❖ ♦ Vx. Caractère de ce qui est expédient. ⇒ Opportunité, utilité … Encyclopédie Universelle
Expedience — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Specific subservience. < N PARAG:Expedience >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 expedience expedience expediency Sgm: N 1 desirableness desirableness desirability &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 fitness fitness &c.(agreement) 23 Sgm: N 1 … English dictionary for students
expedience — expediency / expedience [n1] appropriateness; worth advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism,… … New thesaurus
expedience — noun a) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case. We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and… … Wiktionary
expédience — (èk spé di an s ) s. f. Qualité de ce qui est expédient. HISTORIQUE XIIIe s. • Puis se souffri traïr et vendre, Batre, lier, cloer et pendre, Pour haster nostre expedience [libération], Son doulz costé ouvrir et fendre, J. DE MEUNG Tr. 321.… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
expedience — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Desirableness Nouns 1. expedience, expediency, desirableness, desirability, advisability, eligibility, seemliness, fitness, utility, propriety, opportunism, convenience, timeliness, suitability. See… … English dictionary for students
expedience — expedient ► ADJECTIVE 1) advantageous. 2) advisable on practical rather than moral grounds. ► NOUN ▪ a means of attaining an end. DERIVATIVES expedience noun expediency noun expediently adverb … English terms dictionary
