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

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
expediency(n) ความเหมาะสม, ความสะดวก, ความได้เปรียบ, ความง่าย

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collins, a Iot of mothers' sons have been sacrificed to expediency around here;ต้องสูญเสียลูกชายให้กับพวกนี้ Changeling (2008)

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
expediency

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
expediency
inexpediency

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

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
Zweckmäßigkeit { f }expediency [Add to Longdo]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
不便[ふべん, fuben] (adj-na, n) inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness; (P) #3,213 [Add to Longdo]
応変[おうへん, ouhen] (n) appropriate (urgent) response; expediency [Add to Longdo]
権道[けんどう, kendou] (n) inappropriate means to a worthy end; expediency [Add to Longdo]
御都合主義;ご都合主義[ごつごうしゅぎ, gotsugoushugi] (n) opportunism; double standards; timeserving; expediency [Add to Longdo]
不得策[ふとくさく, futokusaku] (adj-na, n) unwise plan; bad policy; inexpediency [Add to Longdo]
不利益[ふりえき, furieki] (adj-na, n) disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; (P) [Add to Longdo]
便宜主義[べんぎしゅぎ, bengishugi] (n) opportunism; expediency [Add to Longdo]

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