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What does expediency mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
  2. (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
  3. (obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
  4. (countable) An expedient.
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We should ensure that the government does that work, rather than taking the easy way out and sacrificing justice to expediency.
We must have principled leaders who define all of life by principles and not expediency.
Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy.
They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
His belated embrace of the me-too politics of health care may have been prompted by political expediency.
One suspects that aesthetic considerations were cynically sacrificed to muddle-headed political expediency and tokenism.

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