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HSK
booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment
HSK 6
approximately / probably
HSK 3
to sign a contract or agreement
HSK 5
(idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
HSK 7-9
to restrict / condition
HSK 5
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
appointment / engagement / date / CL: , 個|个 / to arrange to meet
HSK 4
to restrict / to limit to / to constrain / restriction / constraint
HSK 5
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
agreement / contract
HSK 7-9
to agree (on a meeting place, date etc) / to reach agreement / to make an appointment
HSK 7-9
contract; agreement / CL:
HSK 6
Warsaw Pact, Soviet-led military alliance (1955–1991) (abbr. for 華沙條約組織|华沙条约组织)
to estimate; to guess / about; around; approximately
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
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to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织)
The New Yorker, US magazine / resident of New York
credit default swap (finance)
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
covenant
promise / one's word / pledge / abbreviation
treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
John the Baptist
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
to arrive as planned / right on schedule
to conclude a treaty
treaty / pact / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)
HSK 7-9
peace treaty
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
restrictive condition / constraint
graceful and subdued (style)
New York
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)
specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
to practice strict economy (idiom)
entente / pact / agreement / negotiated settlement
(idiom) diligent and thrifty
to miss an appointment; to break an appointment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約|通商条约) / to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定|商量约定)
highest common factor HCF / greatest common divisor GCD
Gospel according to St John
New York City
signatory states / countries that are party to a treaty
sketchy / concise / abbreviated
to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
New Testament
to break a promise
Empire State Building
party in a contract, treaty etc
restricted / constrained
peace treaty
to miss an appointment
York
(of a contract) binding (law)
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
to calculate to be roughly ...
terms (of an agreement)
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
oath / vow / pledge / promise
equivocal speech / to use vague or ambiguous language
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
common factor / common divisor
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
engagement / wedding contract
performance bond (international trade)
takeover bid
Saint John
to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...
Jordan (country)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
to restrict / to agree to a contract / offer; bid
to terminate an agreement / to cancel a contract
bet / wager
intensive
movie contract
special correspondent / stringer
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
Yorkshire (English region)
to bind / to restrict / to constrain
approximately / about (some numerical value)
approximately equal to
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
New York Times (newspaper)
app-based taxi
Old Testament
agreement between the residents of a , an administrative district under a city or town (Tw)
approximate estimate / to reckon roughly
New Yorker
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
Saint Joseph

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