expedience

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the quality of being suited to the end in view
noun taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

From Middle English expedience, from Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from Latin expediens.

Utility and expedience are the measure of political duty. — Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions, John Henry Newman
A parallel may be drawn between the Justs which depend upon convention and expedience, and measures; for wine and corn measures are not equal in all places, but where men buy they are large, and where these same sell again they are smaller: well, in like manner the Justs which are not natural, but of human invention, are not everywhere the same, for not even the forms of government are, and yet there is one only which by nature would be best in all places. — The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle

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