EXPEDIENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expediency mean? 

• EXPEDIENCY (noun)
  The noun EXPEDIENCY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being suited to the end in view

  Familiarity information: EXPEDIENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPEDIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being suited to the end in view

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

expedience; expediency

Hypernyms ("expediency" is a kind of...):

advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

Antonym:

inexpediency (the quality of being unsuited to the end in view)

Derivation:

expedient (appropriate to a purpose; practical)

 Context examples 

After talking a little more about Mansfield, a subject in which her interest was most apparent, Crawford began to hint at the expediency of an early walk.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It's merely a matter of expediency, you see, my girls will naturally take the lead, and this table is considered their proper place.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

My only doctrine is the doctrine of expediency, and it makes for surviving.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I felt it rather hard, I must own, to be made, without deserving it, the subject of jokes between the coachman and guard as to the coach drawing heavy behind, on account of my sitting there, and as to the greater expediency of my travelling by waggon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as if they were his own children, because he could not help it.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

After that, I suppose, I WAS wrong in remaining so much in Sussex, and the arguments with which I reconciled myself to the expediency of it, were no better than these:—The danger is my own; I am doing no injury to anybody but myself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed, I do not think it is so very small.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The only change noticeable in our boats was that they had hauled close on the wind and were heading several points west of north. Still, I could not see the expediency of the manœuvre, for the free sea was still intercepted by the Macedonia’s five weather boats, which, in turn, had hauled close on the wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)