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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: expedience, -expedience-
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English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
expedience(อิคซฺพี'เดินซี, -พี'เดินซฺ) n. ความสะดวก, ความเหมาะสม, ความได้เปรียบ, ความง่าย, แผนฉุกเฉิน, แผนเฉพาะกาล, Syn. aptness

Thai-English: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
ความสะดวก(n) convenience, See also: facility, easiness, smoothness, expedience, Syn. ความสบาย, ความคล่อง, ความง่ายดาย, Ant. ความยากลำบาก, Example: ทางเจ้าหน้าที่ได้มีการจัดรถเพื่อความสะดวกสำหรับผู้ที่จะเข้าไปเยี่ยมชมงาน

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
expedience

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
expedience

WordNet (3.0)
expedience(n) the quality of being suited to the end in view, Syn. expediency, Ant. inexpedience, inexpediency
inexpedience(n) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view, Syn. inexpediency, Ant. expedience, expediency
opportunism(n) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others, Syn. expedience, self-seeking, self-interest

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Expediency

{ }, 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 ]

Variants: Expedience
Inexpediency

{ } n. The quality or state of being inexpedient; lack of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Variants: Inexpedience

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary
Unzweckmäßigkeit { f }inexpedience [Add to Longdo]
Zweckmäßigkeit { f }expedience [Add to Longdo]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
便宜[べんぎ, bengi] (adj-na, n, adj-no) convenience; accommodation; advantage; expedience; (P) #13,598 [Add to Longdo]
不都合[ふつごう, futsugou] (adj-na, n) inconvenience; inexpedience; trouble; harm; impropriety; wrongdoing; (P) #15,588 [Add to Longdo]
好都合[こうつごう, koutsugou] (adj-na, n) convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience; (P) [Add to Longdo]

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