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HSK
to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office
HSK 1
to finish work; to get off work / next service (train, bus etc)
HSK 1
to work a shift / on duty
HSK 5
to work overtime
HSK 4
class monitor / squad leader / team leader / CL: 個|个
HSK 2
training class
HSK 4
class (group of students) / grade (in school)
HSK 3
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team; class; grade / (military) squad / work shift / CL: 個|个 / classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
HSK 1
(scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing
HSK 4
to start and finish work
office workers (as social group)
the whole class
to be off duty
Spanish language
HSK 6
night shift
HSK 7-9
Durban (city in South Africa)
to take over (from those working the previous shift) / to take over (in a leadership role etc) / to succeed sb
HSK 7-9
working hours; office hours
tai-pan / business executive / foreign business manager / top class of kindergarten or school grade
three-shift system (work rostering)
to change shift
successor
HSK 7-9
original cast / former team
intensive course / crash course
Spain
connecting flight
(sports, esp. soccer) newly promoted team (one that has advanced from a lower league to a higher league)
middle shift; swing shift; early night shift / middle class in kindergarten (4–5 year olds)
to divide people into groups, teams, squads etc
(Tw) to take over sb's job; to substitute for
Spaniard / Spanish person
to be in the same class / to be in the same squad / classmate
to hand over to the next workshift
individual lesson / one-on-one class
teacher in charge of a class
grade / class number (in school) / flight or run number / flight or run (seen as an item) / shift (work period)
day shift
regular bus (service)
classmate
the Taliban, Islamist organization that emerged in the mid-1990s in Afghanistan
to work one's shift
attendant / footman (servant)
advanced stream (in school) / express (train, bus etc)
(theater) (originally) non-leading actors; supporting cast; (now) key members of a production team (actors, directors, writers etc) / (by extension) key members of a group or organization
small, poorly-equipped theatrical troupe that tours small towns and villages / (fig.) makeshift band of individuals / rough and ready outfit
to withdraw troops from the front / to return in triumph
early shift; morning work shift
(loanword) banjo
direct flight
to check on sb at his workplace / to come to a movie set to visit one of the actors
to change shifts / to work in turns
overtime pay
night shift
the prettiest girl in the class
choir
red-eye flight
(Tw) class representative / class president
to arrange (shifts, runs, classes etc) in order
preschool group for kids aged three or less / (Tw) work shift starting around daybreak
airliner / (regular) flight (CL:,,)
Dolce & Gabbana (fashion brand)
to sign up for a class
to group students into classes / to divide people (staff members etc) into groups
to act as substitute / to fill in for sb
organized group / theatrical troupe
(Tw) teacher in charge of a class / homeroom teacher
Panchen Erdeni or Panchen Lama / abbr. to 班禪|班禅
seniority in the family / pecking order
to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)
Port-of-Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago
shift working
Brisbane, capital of Queensland, Australia
to join a class partway through the course
(in the) class
Ban Chao (33-102), noted Han diplomat and military man
to work office hours / on duty
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
(Tw) class composed of gifted students
graveyard shift; late night shift
tutorial class / remedial class / preparatory course
(old) school for Chinese opera / formal professional education or training
leader of a theatrical troupe
group or team (in factories etc)
the most handsome boy in the class
(old) footman / servant
Banksy (British street artist)
Banda Sea, in the East Indian Archipelago
instructional workshop
preschool
to change shift / the next work shift / to relieve (a workman on the previous shift) / to take over the job
Baima or Banma county (Tibetan: pad ma rdzong) in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture 果洛州, Qinghai
seniority in the family / pecking order
Benjamin (name)
after-school program
Binche (Belgian city)
Banks (surname) / Banksy (UK artist)
cram class / cram school / evening classes
Spanish (language)
Panchen Lama
seminar / workshop

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