EXPEDIENCY


Meaning of EXPEDIENCY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

political

What are needed are more Mario Cuomos, politicians who are prepared to put moral and practical argument above political expediency .

Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency .

They are politics of political expediency .

But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.

These rates are clearly a trade-off between economic logic and political expediency .

This is often a legacy of historic inception, piecemeal development, and political expediency .

Perhaps it had been a matter of legal or political expediency .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The governor vetoed this bill out of political expediency rather than principle.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And a system whose first and last resort was all too often expediency .

And this production, played on a red-carpeted traverse stage, brings out excellently the mixture of bombast and expediency .

But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency .

But localised flood prevention solutions often have implications for other areas and political expediency should not determine the solution.

Dooley made popcorn, and Barnabas did his business at the hedge with great expediency .

He would continue to make most of his decisions on the basis of military expediency .

It was for Congress to determine the question of expediency .

The potential for expediency in planning is vast.

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