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Word entry · 10 letters

expediency

Best crossword clue

"Practical advantage"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /ɛkˈspiː.dɪ.ən.si/Part of speech nounSorted cdeeeinpxyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Used in a sentence

  • Imperfet governments […] may palliate crimes upon the plea of necessity or expediency; divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice; […]
  • 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.
  • However, by that time the powerful tides of political unionism, metropolitan fashion and commercial expediency were flowing against the language, at least among the Scottish elites.

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