Efficiently vs Expediency - What's the difference?
efficiently | expediency |
In an efficient manner.
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(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
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(uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
(countable) An expedient.
As an adverb efficiently
is in an efficient manner.As a noun expediency is
(uncountable) the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.efficiently
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Adverb
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expediency
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Noun
- Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
- Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency , as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.