Usually means: Prioritizing efficiency over ethical considerations.
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  1. expediency: Merriam-Webster
  2. expediency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expediency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expediency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expediency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Expediency, expediency: Wordnik
  7. expediency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. expediency: Wiktionary
  9. expediency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. expediency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. expediency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. expediency: Dictionary.com
  13. expediency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Expediency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Expediency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. expediency: Rhymezone
  17. Expediency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. expediency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. expediency: FreeDictionary.org
  20. expediency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. expediency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. expediency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expediency: Legal dictionary

(Note: See expediencies as well.)

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noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
noun:  (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
noun:  (obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
noun:  (countable) An expedient.

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