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HSK
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
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  *約* | 約* | *約
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
approximately / probably
HSK 3
appointment / engagement / date / CL: , 個|个 / to arrange to meet
HSK 4
to sign a contract or agreement
HSK 5
to restrict / to limit to / to constrain / restriction / constraint
HSK 5
to restrict / condition
HSK 5
booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment
HSK 6
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
contract; agreement / CL:
HSK 6
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
treaty / pact / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)
HSK 7-9
to agree (on a meeting place, date etc) / to reach agreement / to make an appointment
HSK 7-9
(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
HSK 7-9
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
agreement / contract
HSK 7-9
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
Book of Jonah
graceful and subdued (style)
Johannesburg, South Africa
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  *約* | 約* | *約
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task
peace treaty
New York City
to renew or extend a contract
New York
sketchy / concise / abbreviated
lease
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
Jordan (country)
John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
Rio de Janeiro
to invite / invitation
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织)
New Testament
approximate / rough
charter
Joshua (name)
Gospel according to St John
Joseph (name)
engagement / wedding contract
to estimate; to guess / about; around; approximately
to restrict / to agree to a contract / offer; bid
penalty (fee)
to terminate an agreement / to cancel a contract
to keep an appointment
Saint John
(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
sphincter
bet / wager
to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
New York Times (newspaper)
Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
(of a contract) binding (law)
(idiom) graceful; lovely
York
to break a promise / breach of contract
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
to agree on three laws (idiom) / three-point covenant / (fig.) preliminary agreement / basic rules
to practice strict economy (idiom)
temporary law / provisional constitution
to keep an appointment / to keep one's word
highest common factor HCF / greatest common divisor GCD
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
to invite sb to go along with oneself (to a meeting, on a trip etc)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
Joseph Needham (1900-1995), British biochemist and author of Science and Civilization in China
divisor (of a number) / approximate number
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
Allies / entente (i.e. Western powers allied to China in WW1)
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) or Dr Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
(literary) graceful; charming
trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約|通商条约) / to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定|商量约定)
Old Testament
contract / written agreement
common factor / common divisor
to gather at an appointed place and time
Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争
frugal; economical; thrifty
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
Joseph (name)
to miss an appointment
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
to miss an appointment
signatory states / countries that are party to a treaty
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
Warsaw Pact, Soviet-led military alliance (1955-1991) (abbr. for 華沙條約組織|华沙条约组织)
peace treaty
to invite / to issue an invitation
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
to conclude a treaty
First epistle of St John
to have a prior engagement
contract / oath of allegiance
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement

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