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HSK
to trust / to have confidence in
HSK 3
director / head / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
HSK 3
responsibility / blame / duty / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to hold a governmental office or post / to assume office of / to take charge of / to serve as
HSK 4
predecessor / ex- / former / ex (spouse etc)
HSK 7-9
to hold a concurrent post / part-time; (in academia) adjunct
HSK 7-9
to take office / previous (incumbent) / predecessor
HSK 7-9
to occupy a post currently / current (president etc); incumbent / (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
HSK 7-9
to take up a post; to start in a new job
HSK 7-9
heavy responsibility
HSK 7-9
qualified / competent (professionally) / to be up to a task
HSK 7-9
to continue in (a political) office / to serve for another term of office
HSK 7-9
to take office / to assume a post
HSK 7-9
to appoint (to a position) / appointed
HSK 7-9
legal responsibility; liability
to appoint
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of / (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
full-time / to appoint sb to a specific task
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
surname Ren
to take over (as minister, manager etc)
to leave office
to take responsibility / to bear responsibility / to be responsible
newly-appointed / newly elected / new (in a political office)
laissez-faire
deputy director / assistant head
to leave office / to leave one's post
Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist
teacher in charge of a class
to ignore / to let alone / to indulge
extremely (pleased, grateful etc)
first person to be appointed to a post
to succeed sb in a job / successor
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
civil liability (law)
(idiom) to take office; to assume a post
to be appointed or elevated to a post
to set apart / to assign sb to a job
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
to take office; to assume a post
to transfer / to move to another post
to be promoted to
not to be up to the task (idiom) / incompetent
to travel to take up a new post
special appointment
to attend / to take office / to be present (in administrative capacity)
successor / to take up a position subsequently as ... / (attributive) future; subsequent
to fill a post of; to act as
to bear one's own responsibilities and not pass them to others (idiom)
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
permanent
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
to promote and appoint
to retire / to leave one's position
to appoint / to be appointed
then (as in "the then chairman")
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
(literary) to entrust (sb) with an important task
to make it one's business / to take upon oneself to
to resign (a position)
next office holder / next to serve
trusty
Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇
at fault / blamed for / responsible (for a blunder or crime)
to evade responsibility / to shirk
-elect / designate / (i.e. elected or appointed but not yet installed)
director of the local committee of the Women's Federation
to appoint
liable / responsible
(of the holder of an official post which no longer exists) the last (incumbent)
head of a (university) department; department chair
rotating appointment (e.g. presidency of EU)


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