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| Concept: | [Specific subservience] Expedience. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
expedience, expediency; desirableness, desirability; fitness (agreement); utility; propriety; opportunism; advantage., high time (occasion).
-verbs
-adjectives
expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming; befitting; opportune (in season); in loco; suitable (accordant); applicable (useful).
-adverbs
in the right place; conveniently.
-phrases
operae pretium est.
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| Antonyms: | inexpedience |
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| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resource |
| Synonyms: | band-aid, contrivance, design, device, dodge, easy way out, gimmick, makeshift, maneuver, means, measure, method, recourse, resort, scheme, shift, step, stopgap, stratagem, strategy, substitute, surrogate, tactic, trick |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
| Antonyms: | immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill; eagerness |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, alacrity, aptness, deftness, dexterity, dispatch, ease, eloquence, expedience, expedition, facility, fitness, fluency, good will, handiness, inclination, keenness, maturity, preparation, preparedness, promptitude, promptness, prowess, quickness, rapidity, ripeness, sleight, volubility, willingness |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, unpreparedness |
| Main Entry: | opportunism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expediency |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advantageousness, expedience, exploitation, opportunity, timeliness |
| Main Entry: | expediency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stopgap |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, expedience, expedient, make-do, makeshift, practicality |
| Main Entry: | expediency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | advantageousness, convenience, efficiency, expedience, expedient, fitness, propriety, suitability, usefulness |
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| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
opportune, acceptable, advisable, applicable, apposite, as it ought to be, as it should be, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, condecent, condign, convenient, deserved, desirable, due, eligible, even, fair, fit, fitting, good, idoneous, just, justifiable, lawful, legitimate, meet, proper, reasonable, right, rightful, seemly, suitable, worthwhile
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