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"ref": "2011, L. Fletcher Prouty, Jesse Ventura, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World",
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"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Notlösung"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"word": "espediente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"word": "escamotage"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ripiego"
},
{
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "celishodno sredstvo",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "целисходно средство"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çare",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"word": "چاره"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "derman",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"word": "درمان"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "expediente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "приём"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulóvka",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "уло́вка"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "expediente"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"word": "geçici çözüm"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a means for achieving an end",
"topics": [
"military",
"war",
"government",
"politics"
],
"word": "yardımcı"
}
],
"word": "expedient"
}
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"lang_code": "la",
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"word": "expediō"
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],
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"expedio#Latin"
]
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"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
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{
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"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
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]
},
{
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"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "expediente",
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"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "niște expediente",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "expedientele",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "expedient",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "unui expedient",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "expedientului",
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"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "expediente",
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"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
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},
{
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"tags": [
"dative",
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"dative",
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"singular",
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]
},
{
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"plural",
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]
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"categories": [
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"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
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"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French"
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],
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