| expedience | (อิคซฺพี'เดินซี, -พี'เดินซฺ) n. ความสะดวก, ความเหมาะสม, ความได้เปรียบ, ความง่าย, แผนฉุกเฉิน, แผนเฉพาะกาล, Syn. aptness |
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| | | | | | 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 |
| | | 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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