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HSK
to implement / to carry out / to execute / to run
HSK 5
executive committee (abbr. for 執行委員會|执行委员会)
obstinate / stubborn / to fixate on / to cling to
HSK 7-9
ruling party / the party in power
to wield (power etc)
to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
HSK 7-9
license; permit
HSK 7-9
executable (computing)
to persist in one's views
to hold power / in office
chief executive officer (CEO)
to direct (a film, play etc)
to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
paranoia; monomania
to write / to do the actual writing
to be strongly attached to / to be dedicated / to cling to / (Buddhism) attachment
HSK 7-9
to be on duty (of a security guard etc)
receipt (written acknowledgement of receipt of an item)
extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid
obsession (CL:) / (when followed by 於|于) to be obsessive (about)
pedantic and stubborn
to speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle
to enforce a law / law enforcement
HSK 7-9
executioner (hangman) / business executor
each sticks to his own version (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
deferred death sentence / abbr. to 死緩|死缓
(literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
paranoid (psych.)
ruler
to teach / to be a teacher / to train / to coach
to persist / to continue upholding / to persevere / to stick to sth / stubborn
senior executive
each sticks to his own view
to be obsessive / to persist obstinately
(law) judgement defaulter (person who has failed to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement, such as paying compensation to sb, despite having the means to do so) / debt dodger
person of one's father's generation
to perform one's job / attendant / job / duties / (respectful appellation for the addressee) you / your Excellency / (Church) deacon
paraphernalia of a guard of honor
stubborn; willful; pigheaded / Taiwan pr. [zhi2ao4]
governing capacity
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
to be determined to / to insist on
HSK 7-9
to choose what is good and hold fast to it (idiom)
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  *執* | 執* | *執
to execute (a plan) / to grasp
consul (of the Roman Republic) / magistrate (chief administrator)
governing method
to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly
to attend a funeral
to quarrel endlessly
governance based on rationality, evidence and scientific principles
(law) person required to fulfill obligations set forth in a written court judgement (e.g. to pay compensation to sb)
rigid / inflexible
executive committee member (abbr. for 執行委員|执行委员)
to tidy up (dialect)
(law) entrapment
interpreted (computer)
each sticks to his own view (idiom); a dialogue of the deaf
(Han dynasty) official in command of an army responsible for maintaining law and order in the capital
Central Executive Committee
to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
(Tw) (computing) thread
driver's license
(of an airline) to run a flight
(Tw) chief executive
to serve (a sentence) outside prison (law)
receipt
City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau (PRC)


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