Bible Dictionaries
Expediency

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.

(2):

(n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; - sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

(3):

(n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Expediency'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/expediency.html. 1828.