Converse of object

• consider: The Commissioners also considered the expediency of appointing a Minister of Science.

• reflect: The evidence suggests that decisions on bed numbers in PFI schemes reflect financial expediency rather than clinical judgment.

• doubt: Or does Comrade Rappoport perhaps doubt the expediency of this decision or its timeliness?

• mean: It means that political expediency will take the place of independent decision-making in the arts.

Converse of subject

• drive: It is a quick fix driven by political expediency.

• motivate: Bearing everything in mind we are tempted to conclude that the Islamic view is motivated by expediency.

• dictate: It would by no means be the first time that the content of a Shakespeare play was dictated by political expediency.

Adjective modifier

• short-term: We shall soon see whether he has learned that short-term expediency has long-term costs.

• political: Political expediency is being allowed to take the place of common sense.

• financial: I want parents to have a real choice, not a situation that is forced upon them by financial expediency.

• simple: In January 1929 a number of new Squadrons were created by the simple expediency of raising the existing flights to Squadron status.

• economic: But for those who put their efforts and money into the building of these houses of worship, economic expediency was not an issue.

• mere: Expelling the destructive influence of radical clerics is not enough, mere short-term expediency arising from a political need to placate the wider electorate.

Modifies a noun

• principle: The introduction of an expediency principle would be likely to result in a greatly reduced economic burden to the criminal justice system.

Noun used with modifier

• business: However, the effectiveness of voluntarism relies on business expediency or a company's sense of charity.

Preposition: than

• anything: His appointment was more out of expediency than anything else; there was simply nobody suitable to promote from inside.