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HSK
school assignment / homework / work / task / operation / CL: 個|个 / to operate
HSK 2
specialty / specialized field / main field of study (at university) / major / CL: 門|门, 個|个 / professional
HSK 3
business / trade / commerce
HSK 3
to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise / entrepreneurship
HSK 3
to get a job / employment
HSK 3
industry
HSK 3
undertaking / project / activity / (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause / publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation / career / occupation / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
occupation; profession; vocation / professional
HSK 3
agriculture / farming
HSK 3
to open a business / to open a practice / open (for business)
HSK 3
trade; profession; industry; business
HSK 4
to do business / to trade
HSK 4
graduation / to graduate / to finish school
HSK 4
company; firm; enterprise; corporation / CL:
HSK 4
in one's spare time / outside working hours / amateur (historian etc)
HSK 4
graduate
HSK 4
unemployment / to lose one's job
HSK 4
industry / estate / property / industrial
HSK 5
business / professional work / service / CL: 項|项
HSK 5
property / real estate / abbr. for 物業管理|物业管理, property management
HSK 5
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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
studies / schoolwork
HSK 7-9
to practice (a trade)
HSK 7-9
to cease trading (temporarily or permanently) / to close down
HSK 7-9
occupational disease
HSK 7-9
dedicated to one's work
HSK 7-9
(idiom) conscientious / assiduous
HSK 7-9
achievement; accomplishment / (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
HSK 7-9
unemployment rate
HSK 7-9
public utility / state-run enterprise / public foundation or enterprise, often charitable
industry / commercial enterprise
technical university / engineering college
to resume one's old trade (idiom)
to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional
industrial zone
business hours; opening hours; office hours
sum or volume of business / turnover
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  *業* | 業* | *業
surname Ye
to finish school, esp. a short course / to complete a course / (of a company) to cease operations
financial sector / the banking business
service industry
salesperson
manufacturing industry
to close down (temporarily or permanently) / to go out of business
owner / proprietor
same trade or business / person in the same trade or business
every trade; all professions; all walks of life
small and medium enterprise
employee / person employed in a trade or profession
to study at school
revenue
clerk / shop assistant / CL: 個|个
graduation ceremony; commencement exercises
trade association
food service industry; catering industry
transportation industry
chemical industry (abbr. to 化工)
heavy industry / manufacturing
stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off
(PRC) (since 1985) graduation certificate, which certifies that the student has graduated, but not necessarily met all requirements to be awarded a degree certificate 學位證書|学位证书 / (1981-1985) graduation certificate, which certified that the student graduated, and, if it included a final sentence indicating a degree type, also certified that the student met all the requirements for a degree
mining industry
film industry
operator (of a machine etc); factory worker
business district / downtown
agricultural machinery
industrial design
already
expert (in a field)
industrial park
great cause / great undertaking
tourism industry
animal husbandry / stock raising / livestock raising
employment service; job placement service; jobseeker assistance
self-employed / profession
already
specialization
forest industry / forestry
specialized education / technical school
steel industry
unemployed / jobless / out of work
the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony
to industrialize / industrialization
(Buddhism) karma
employment rate
Leye county in Baise 百色, Guangxi
not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
vocational training
newspaper industry
to live in peace and work happily (idiom)
an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420)
Xingye county in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi
to achieve or accomplish goals
livestock husbandry / animal product industry
manufactured goods
homework
plantation
state-operated enterprise
defense industry
school opening ceremony (to mark the start of a semester) (Tw)
specialized middle school

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