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specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to get a job / employment
HSK 3
occupation; profession; vocation / professional
HSK 3
trade; profession; industry; business
HSK 4
to do business / to trade
HSK 4
property / real estate / abbr. for 物業管理|物业管理, property management
HSK 5
company; firm; enterprise; corporation / CL:
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship
HSK 3
graduation / to graduate / to finish school
HSK 4
industry
HSK 3
agriculture / farming
HSK 3
business / trade / commerce
HSK 3
industry / estate / property / industrial
HSK 5
(idiom) conscientious / assiduous
HSK 7-9
pharmaceutical company
devoted to one's work
cultivation industry
family property
sideline; side occupation
studies / schoolwork
HSK 7-9
every trade; all professions; all walks of life
small and medium enterprise
foundation / base / family estate
main business
same trade or business / person in the same trade or business
service to the public / public welfare undertaking / charity / social facility
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  *業* | 業* | *業
line of business / industry / occupation / job / employment / school studies / enterprise / property / (Buddhism) karma / deed / to engage in / already
HSK 7-9
to get married and start a career (idiom) / to settle down / to establish oneself
(idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
chemical industry (abbr. to 化工)
manufacturing industry
service industry
medium sized enterprise
state-owned enterprise
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
the sex industry
private business / opposite: state-owned enterprise 國有企業|国有企业
to open a business / to open a practice / open (for business)
HSK 3
to study / to learn from a master / (pupil's first person pronoun) I, your student
to practice (a trade)
HSK 7-9
industry and agriculture
manufacturer
full employment
privately-operated enterprise
the software industry
to achieve or accomplish goals
steel industry
small or medium size enterprise (SME)
public utility / state-run enterprise / public foundation or enterprise, often charitable
state-operated enterprise
film industry
to give up work / to give up one's profession
dedicated to one's work
HSK 7-9
achievement / outstanding work / glorious deed
typography / printing business
to teach (idiom); lit. to give moral and practical instruction
tertiary sector of industry
free enterprise (in capitalist theory)
enterprise with no premises, capital or regular staff
newspaper industry
to finish school, esp. a short course / to complete a course / (of a company) to cease operations
mining industry
collective karma (Buddhism) / consequences that all must suffer
to complete a course of study (old) / to graduate
animal husbandry / stock raising / livestock raising
Norinco, PRC state-run conglomerate
to preserve one's heritage / to defend the accomplishments of previous generations / to carry on the good work / to keep one's business going
tourism industry
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
public enterprise, as opposed to private enterprise 私營企業|私营企业
nuclear industry
plantation
the catering industry / the hotel and restaurant business
homework
computer industry
foreign, private and joint ventures
handicraft
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  *業* | 業* | *業
surname Ye
textile industry
porn business
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
to study at school
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
creative industries (design, music, publishing etc) (abbr. for 文化創意產業|文化创意产业)
business in which a company has traditionally engaged (e.g. before diversifying) / original business / core business / (literary) agriculture
mainstay industry
small business
unemployed / jobless / out of work
financial sector / the banking business
electronics industry
centrally-managed state-owned enterprise (PRC)
wholesale business / bulk trade
subsistence farming / subsistence agriculture
one's old profession / trade of one's forebears
to change one's profession / to transfer to civilian work
to wait for employment; to be unemployed

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