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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 rect…

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  1. 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.
  2. n. Expedition; haste; dispatch.
  3. n. An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
  4. n. the quality of being suited to the end in view
  5. n:100 n the quality of being suited to the end in view