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mission; assignment; task; duty; role / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
to trust / to have confidence in
HSK 3
director / head / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
any; whatever; whichever
HSK 3
to hold a governmental office or post / to assume office of / to take charge of / to serve as
HSK 4
to hold a concurrent post / part-time; (in academia) adjunct
HSK 7-9
to take office / previous (incumbent) / predecessor
HSK 7-9
any / arbitrary / at will / at random
HSK 7-9
to occupy a post currently / current (president etc); incumbent / (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
HSK 7-9
to hold a post; to take office
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 appoint / (job) appointment / CL: 紙|纸
HSK 7-9
predecessor / ex- / former / ex (spouse etc)
HSK 7-9
term of office / CL: 屆|届 / tenure (entire period in office)
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
to get trampled on (idiom) / to be taken advantage of
HSK 7-9
legal responsibility; liability
Nintendo
letter of appointment
to appoint
(of one person) to hold the successive posts of / (of several persons) the successive (presidents etc)
to choose freely; to pick whichever one fancies
full-time / to appoint sb to a specific task
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *任* | 任* | *任
surname Ren
editor in charge
to appoint / to assign
to leave office
to take responsibility / to bear responsibility / to be responsible
willful / headstrong / unruly
to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
newly-appointed / newly elected / new (in a political office)
laissez-faire
deputy director / assistant head
to leave office / to leave one's post
sense of responsibility
Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist
Rencheng district of Jining city 濟寧市|济宁市, Shandong
to take over (as minister, manager etc)
to work hard without complaint (idiom)
teacher in charge of a class
first person to be appointed to a post
period in office
to appoint (sb to a post)
to give classes / to work as a teacher
liability insurance
to ignore / to let alone / to indulge
sense of responsibility
civil liability (law)
a heavy load and a long road / fig. to bear heavy responsibilities through a long struggle (cf Confucian Analects, 8.7)
(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
(of a newly appointed official) to make bold changes on assuming office (idiom)
no-confidence motion
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
to take office; to assume a post
(idiom) to appoint people by favoritism; to practice cronyism (or nepotism)
at one's discretion
to succeed sb in a job / successor
to appoint people according to their merits (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
system of job responsibility
Renqiu, county-level city in Cangzhou 滄州|沧州, Hebei
chivalrous / helping the weak for the sake of justice
to hold a teaching position
to transfer / to move to another post
to allow (sb to have his head) / to let things happen
to be promoted to
not to be up to the task (idiom) / incompetent
to travel to take up a new post
special appointment
to allow (sb to act arbitrarily) / to let sb have his head
appointment to an important post
mandate (territory administration)
certificate of appointment (to government office)
to attend / to take office / to be present (in administrative capacity)
to appoint and dismiss
vote of no-confidence
to fill a post of; to act as
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
as you see fit / to do as one likes
permanent
(idiom) expert at appointing people according to their abilities; to put the right people in the right places
Rencheng district of Jining city 濟寧市|济宁市, Shandong
to promote and appoint
to retire / to leave one's position
to appoint / to be appointed
(idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
then (as in "the then chairman")
Simon Yam Tat-Wah (1955-), Hong Kong actor and film producer
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
to appoint the virtuous and use the able (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire
successor

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