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Meanings of expediency in English

Catalan
oportunitat
Spanish
oportunidad

The quality of being suited to the end in view.

oportunitat
Usage of expediency in English
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We also see expediency or time to market traded against code quality.
Even faster web sites
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Let others stand for expediency or promotion or whatever value they choose.
For Honor We Stand
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But I also believe Horne's actions are also directed by political expediency.
Jamaica Observer
4
We should not sacrifice good environmental management for the sake of expediency.
The South African
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Huhne has to say nuclear is getting no subsidy for political expediency.
The Guardian
6
The great law of expediency is strictly observed;-itis borne of necessity.
The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
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Sometimes political expediency can overreach itself and perpetrate the most grave injustices.
The Snare
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The only question can be as to the expediency and the justice.
North America — Volume 2
9
The elements of caution and expediency were singularly lacking in his character.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
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He is moderate in politics, as expediency in that age would suggest.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English Hist...
11
He approved the principle but doubted the expediency of now reäffirming it.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
12
I doubt even the expediency of running away, as a general rule.
The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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But he had considerable misgiving about the expediency of this last wish.
Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnig...
14
The justice of the measure was not less evident than its expediency.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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The expediency of the moment had presented itself to his mind again.
With Edged Tools
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Winchester consulted the surgeon as to the expediency of removing his patient.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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Expediency through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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