different between expedience vs expedite

English

Etymology

From Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from Latin expediens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.spi?.d?.?ns/

Noun

expedience (countable and uncountable, plural expediences)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to cause some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
   • April 11 1690, John Sharp, sermon preached at White-Hall

     to determine concerning the expedience of actions

2. Speed, haste or urgency.
   • 2008, Thomas Dyja, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America (page 178)

     The sense of expedience that allowed White to cut deals and keep moving had made many, mistakenly, see him as shallow or, worse, unprincipled.

3. Something that is expedient.
4. (obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

Synonyms

• (fitness or suitableness): expediency
• (speed, haste or urgency): expediency

Related terms

Translations

References

• OED2
• Webster, Noah (1828) , “expediency”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• expedience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• expedience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedience”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Etymology

From Latin exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“bring forward, set right”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k.sp??da?t/

Verb

expedite (third-person singular simple present expedites, present participle expediting, simple past and past participle expedited)

1. (transitive) To accelerate the progress of.
2. (transitive) To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

Antonyms

• impede
• slow down

Related terms

• expede (obsolete)
• expedience
• expediency
• expedient
• expedition
• expediter
• expeditious
• expeditiously

Translations

Adjective

expedite (comparative more expedite, superlative most expedite)

1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     to make the way plain and expedite

2. Expeditious; quick; prompt.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     nimble and expedite […] in its operation

   • speech in general […] is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts one to another

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “expedite”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Etymology

From exped?tus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expedi? (“liberate, free”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di?.te?/, [?ks?p??d?i?t?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.spe?di.te/, [?ksp??d?i?t??]

Adverb

exped?t? (comparative exped?tius, superlative exped?tissim?)

1. freely, without impediment.
2. readily, promptly, quickly

Related terms

• expedi?
• exped?tus

References

• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expedite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expedite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

expedite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of expeditar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of expeditar.