Expediency Ped Ek Spee Dee Uhn See Noun Consideration Advantageous Easy Quality

expediency /ek-SPEE-dee-uhn-see/

noun

1. Consideration of what is advantageous, easy or immediate over what is right.

2. The quality of being suited for a purpose. 

[From Latin expedire (to make ready, to set the feet free), from ex- (out of) + ped- (foot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ped- (foot) which gave us peccadillo (alluding to a stumble or fall), pedal, impeccable, podium, octopus, and impeach]

"Political expediency means that a lot of planning is still short term." - Elizabeth Sidiropoulos & Lyal White; How Brazil Beats Poverty Trap; Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, South Africa); Aug 25, 2009.