expedience

Roget category 646

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#646. [Specific subservience.] Expedience

noun

expedience, expediency — desirableness, desirability etc. adj. — fitness etc. (agreement) 23 — utility etc. 644 — propriety — opportunism — advantage.
high time etc. (occasion) 134.

verb

be expedient etc. adj. — suit etc. (agree) 23 — befit — suit the time, befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion, befit the occasion.
conform etc. 82.

adjective

expedient — desirable, advisable, acceptable — convenient — worth while, meet — fit, fitting — due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming — befitting etc. v. — opportune etc. (in season) 134 — in loco — suitable etc. (accordant) 23 — applicable etc. (useful) 644.

adverb

in the right place — conveniently etc. adj..

phrase

operae pretium est [Lat.].

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