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 expedience [ik'spi:djәns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 权宜, 方便, 私利

  1. He acted from expediency, not from principle.
    他为求达到目的, 丧失了原则.
  2. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
    真正危险的时候是那些为了权宜之计,将自由逐渐的、块的蚕食的时候。


expedience
[ noun ]
  1. the quality of being suited to the end in view

  2. <noun.attribute>
  3. taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

  4. <noun.attribute>


Expedience \Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, 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}.

Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
--Cogan.

To determine concerning the expedience of action.
--Sharp.

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.

2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]

Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.

3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]

Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak.

  1. The spokesman said the former governor issued the order for "political expedience and to get national attention and to appeal to a particular segment of the population."
  2. Investment bankers often mouth platitudes about 'free market' discipline, but when a large private company in which they hold equity stakes fails, these same bankers fall back upon the political expedience of corporate statism.
  3. But if this were a closed society, the expedience of the cutbacks wouldn't be so obvious.
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