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mission; assignment; task; duty; role / CL: 項|项, 個|个
HSK 3
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
civil servant; public servant
HSK 3
to serve / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 2
duty; obligation (CL:項|项) / volunteer (work etc)
HSK 4
commercial affairs / commercial / commerce / business
HSK 4
household duties / housework
HSK 4
debt / liability / amount due / indebtedness
HSK 7-9
service (work done for money) / services (as in "goods and services")
HSK 7-9
business office; firm
HSK 7-9
post / position / job / duties
HSK 5
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  *务* | 务* | *务
affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means
customer service / client service
(idiom) top priority job; a matter of the greatest urgency
HSK 7-9
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
financial software / accounting software
taxation services / state revenue service
HSK 7-9
one-stop service
salesperson
(PRC) State Council / (USA) State Department
to deal with concrete matters / pragmatic
HSK 7-9
infirmary / sick bay / CL: 個|个
(Internet) service provider
farming / to work the land
clinic / CL:
room service
service charge; service fee
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
(political, economic etc) affairs / work / transaction (as in a computer database)
HSK 7-9
civil obligation / a citizen's duty
attendant on an airplane, train, boat etc
business class (travel class on airplanes, trains etc)
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
party affairs / work within the Communist party
(computing) task manager
e-commerce
government affairs
hardworking, thrifty and pragmatic
medical affairs
HSK 7-9
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Cebu (province in the Philippines)
medical personnel
debtor
labor market
foreign ministry (e.g. of Japan or Korea)
Quality of Service / QOS
foreign affairs
permanent member of council
central business district (e.g. CBD of Beijing)
to work as a laborer
it is essential to (complete a project on time, be thorough etc)
employment service; job placement service; jobseeker assistance
even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)
general matters / division of general affairs / person in overall charge
United Parcel Service (UPS)
to show no understanding of the times (idiom); cannot adapt to current circumstances / not amenable to reason
internal affairs
must / to need to / to be sure to
HSK 7-9
standing committee (e.g. of National People's Congress)
service provider
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
government functionary
to eradicate evil completely (idiom); thorough in rooting out wickedness
server (computer) / CL: 臺|台
HSK 7-9
(of a salesperson) to visit potential customers with the aim of selling products or services
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qing Dynasty
practice (customary action, as opposed to theory) / practical
official business
HSK 7-9
(Tw) to provide a service at the customer's home; to make a house call
routine / everyday business / daily operation (of a company)
internal affairs / domestic affairs / family affairs / (trad.) affairs within the palace
delivery service
matters relating to the Chinese diaspora (as a concern of the Chinese government)
secretary of state (esp. historical, or Japanese or Korean usage)
to relieve from office / to sack
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
service desk / information desk / reception desk
service desk / information desk / reception desk
file server
multitasking (computing)
The Commercial Press, Beijing (est. 1897)
household chore
financial affairs; finance
HSK 7-9
army orderly
Department of Trade / Department of Commerce
sexual service / prostitution
server (at a restaurant)
compulsory education
military affairs
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
Taiwan Affairs Office
legal affairs / in-house legal counsel
solicitor (law)
odd job man / army orderly
forum manager
educational administration
communication service
to fulfill one's duty / to work without asking for reward
busy / bustling

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