Thesaurus / expediency
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See also synonyms for: expediencies
- propriety
- expedient
- efficiency
- convenience
- suitability
- usefulness
- fitness
- expedience
- advantageousness
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The House arrived at that number because of political expediency — and it has stayed there because of it, too.
HOW THE HOUSE GOT STUCK AT 435 SEATSGEOFFREY SKELLEY (GEOFFREY.SKELLEY@ABC.COM)AUGUST 12, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe 14 members of the panel have spent the past several months grappling with questions about balancing fairness and expediency.
HEALTH-CARE WORKERS AND NURSING HOME RESIDENTS SHOULD BE THE FIRST TO GET CORONAVIRUS VACCINES, CDC ADVISORY GROUP SAYSLENA H. SUN, ISAAC STANLEY-BECKERDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe only reason, the only thing that changed is the political expediency.
NORTH COUNTY REPORT: AN ACTIVIST ON HIS AGENDA FOR NORTH COUNTY AND BEYONDKAYLA JIMENEZJUNE 24, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOMr. Jackson supposed that Parliament had a right to tax America, but he much doubted the expediency of the present act.
THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTIONCARL BECKERBut Nature's voice is far less often heard than that of her adversary, expediency.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYHard is the contest between affection and expediency, when it is raised by the question of circumstances.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYTherefore our political questions have been questions of expediency rather than of principle.
THOUGHTS ON EDUCATIONAL TOPICS AND INSTITUTIONSGEORGE S. BOUTWELLThe justice of the measure was not less evident than its expediency.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONThe complaint that it sanctions 'expediency' is a simple fallacy.
THE ENGLISH UTILITARIANS, VOLUME II (OF 3)LESLIE STEPHENThe question was no longer one of ethics, but purely of expediency.
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WORDS RELATED TO EXPEDIENCY
- aid
- ascendancy
- asset
- assistance
- authority
- avail
- blessing
- boon
- break
- choice
- comfort
- convenience
- dominance
- edge
- eminence
- expediency
- favor
- gain
- good
- gratification
- help
- hold
- improvement
- influence
- interest
- lead
- leeway
- leg-up
- leverage
- luck
- mastery
- odds
- position
- power
- pre-eminence
- precedence
- preference
- prestige
- prevalence
- profit
- protection
- recognition
- resources
- return
- sanction
- starting
- superiority
- support
- supremacy
- upper hand
- utility
- wealth
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- expediencies
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- improvements
- influences
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- luck
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- preferences
- prestige
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- protections
- recognitions
- resources
- returns
- sanctions
- startings
- superiorities
- supports
- supremacy
- upper hands
- utilities
- wealth
- accommodation
- accordance
- adaptation
- adequacy
- admissibility
- agreeableness
- applicability
- appositeness
- aptitude
- aptness
- assimilation
- auspiciousness
- compatibility
- competence
- concurrency
- congeniality
- congruousness
- consistency
- consonance
- convenience
- correspondence
- decency
- decorum
- eligibility
- expediency
- harmony
- keeping
- order
- patness
- pertinence
- preparedness
- propriety
- qualification
- readiness
- relevancy
- rightness
- seasonableness
- seemliness
- suitability
- timeliness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.