ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsEexpediency
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expediency
Meaning: practical advantage or convenience, sometimes at the expense of principle
expediency in a sentence
How expediency is used in real sentences:
The mayor chose expediency over a slower but fairer solution.
Political expediency led the senator to abandon a position she had long defended.
“The easiest response, justified by expediency, would have been to scrape a narrow track across the debris and post a warning sign.”
— from the passage The Juniper Recovery
Synonyms for expediency
Other words for expediency — convenience, practicality and utility — carry the same meaning.
- convenience
- practicality
- utility
Antonyms of expediency
Words that mean the opposite of expediency:
- idealism
- impracticality
- inconvenience
Where it comes from
From Latin expedire, meaning 'to make ready or useful.'
Memory hook
EXPEDIENCY contains SPEEDY: practical advantage often favors speedy results.
Practice expediency in the app