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to serve / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 2
mission; assignment; task; duty; role / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
household duties / housework
HSK 4
commercial affairs / commercial / commerce / business
HSK 4
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
post / position / job / duties
HSK 5
debt / liability / amount due / indebtedness
HSK 7-9
taxation services / state revenue service
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
(political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database)
HSK 7-9
financial affairs
HSK 7-9
official business
HSK 7-9
medical affairs
HSK 7-9
server (computer) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
to deal with concrete matters / pragmatic
HSK 7-9
must / to need to / to be sure to
HSK 7-9
(idiom) top priority job; a matter of the greatest urgency
HSK 7-9
business office; firm
HSK 7-9
foreign affairs
mining affairs bureau
government functionary
Tax Bureau / Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong)
server (at a restaurant)
e-commerce
waiter / waitress / attendant / customer service personnel / CL: 個|个,
service industry
salesperson
social services
practice (customary action, as opposed to theory) / practical
educational administration
general matters / division of general affairs / person in overall charge
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affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
routine / everyday business / daily operation (of a company)
factory operations; factory administration
after-sales service
service desk / information desk / reception desk
The Commercial Press, Beijing (est. 1897)
government affairs
please (formal)
compulsory education
clinic / CL:
employment service; job placement service; jobseeker assistance
Quality of Service / QOS
permanent member of council
service / duties / an orderly (military)
debtor
Overseas Chinese Affairs Council, Taiwan
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
party affairs / work within the Communist party
matters relating to the Chinese diaspora (as a concern of the Chinese government)
(pertaining to) defense
internal affairs / domestic affairs / family affairs / (trad.) affairs within the palace
farming / to work the land
to have a clear view of things / to adapt to circumstances
port authority
Cebu (province in the Philippines)
minister of state (old usage)
medical personnel
special assignment (military) / special agent / operative / spy
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
member of the State Council (in China)
key task / important affair
phone operator
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
army orderly
to fulfill one's duty / to work without asking for reward
affairs of state
it is essential to (complete a project on time, be thorough etc)
locomotive depot
labor market
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
odd jobs; miscellaneous tasks
infirmary / sick bay / CL: 個|个
household chore
worldly affairs
attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc
file server
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
communication service
(idiom) only an outstanding talent can recognize current trends; a wise man submits to circumstances
Wuchuan Klau and Hmong Autonomous County in Zunyi 遵義|遵义, northeast Guizhou
foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning
provost
telegraph operator / radio operator
(idiom) a matter of no great urgency
military affairs
domain name server
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
odd job man / army orderly
ISDN (integrated services digital network)
law firm
miscellaneous affairs
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) (computing)
morning call / wake-up call (hotel service)
name service

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