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[ik'spi:diənt](convenient or advisable: It is not expedient to pay him what he has asked.) primerno- expediency* * *I [ikspí:diənt]adjective ( expediently adverb)primeren, ugoden, koristen, prikladen; sebičen, koristoljubenII [ikspí:diənt]nounsredstvo, pomagalo, pomoček; iznajdba; zvijačato hit upon an expedient — znajti se, pomagati sireduced to expedients — prisiljen, da si pomaga, kakor ve in zna
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