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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
commercial affairs / commercial / commerce / business
HSK 4
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
household duties / housework
HSK 4
post / position / job / duties
HSK 5
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
taxation services / state revenue service
HSK 7-9
(political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database)
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
official business
HSK 7-9
debt / liability / amount due / indebtedness
HSK 7-9
must / to need to / to be sure to
HSK 7-9
to deal with concrete matters / pragmatic
HSK 7-9
financial affairs; finance
HSK 7-9
medical affairs
HSK 7-9
(idiom) top priority job; a matter of the greatest urgency
HSK 7-9
server (computer) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
business office; firm
HSK 7-9
(pertaining to) defense
waiter / waitress / attendant / customer service personnel / CL: 個|个,
social services
to make administration service-oriented
debt instrument
farming / to work the land
forum manager
(of a salesperson) to visit potential customers with the aim of selling products or services
labor exchanges
government affairs
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
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affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means
educational administration
to work as a laborer
general matters / division of general affairs / person in overall charge
school administration office
special assignment (military) / special agent / operative / spy
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
Department of Trade / Department of Commerce
water supply
affairs of state
routine / everyday business / daily operation (of a company)
service (on a train, a plane etc)
legal affairs / in-house legal counsel
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
key task / important affair
to discuss matters of principle (as opposed to concrete issues)
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
service / duties / an orderly (military)
phone operator
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
banking
party affairs / work within the Communist party
factory operations; factory administration
to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
military affairs
financial independence
practice (customary action, as opposed to theory) / practical
foreign affairs
locomotive depot
urgent task / pressing matter
telegraph operator / radio operator
Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, in Zunyi City 遵義市|遵义市, Guizhou
salesperson
Wuchuan Klau and Hmong autonomous county in Zunyi 遵義|遵义, northeast Guizhou
it is essential to (complete a project on time, be thorough etc)
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
(idiom) a matter of no great urgency
(municipal) water authority
The Commercial Press, Beijing (est. 1897)
customer service / client service
after-sales service
e-commerce
National Tree Planting Day (March 12th), as known as Arbor Day 植樹節|植树节
service industry
one-stop service
(Internet) service provider
editing
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc
employment service; job placement service; jobseeker assistance
infirmary / sick bay / CL: 個|个
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
Quality of Service / QOS
to relieve from office / to sack
compulsory education
room service
taskbar (computing)
household chore
medical personnel
Cebu (province in the Philippines)
Cebuano (aka Bisaya), language spoken in parts of the Philippines
server (at a restaurant)
miscellaneous affairs
service provider
Tax Bureau / Inland Revenue Department (Hong Kong)
morning call / wake-up call (hotel service)

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