Expediency

German Meaning

Zweckmäßigkeit

Zweckdienlichkeit

Zweckdenken

Ratsamkeit

Angemessenheit

Berechnung

English Meaning

  1. Appropriateness to the purpose at hand; fitness.
  2. Adherence to self-serving means: an ambitious politician, guided by expediency rather than principle.
  3. A means; an expedient.
  4. Obsolete Speed; haste.