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(law) to judge; to adjudicate; verdict; judgement / (sports) to referee / (sports) umpire; referee; judge
HSK 5
arbitration
HSK 7-9
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to cut out (as a dress) / to cut / to trim / to reduce / to diminish / to cut back (e.g. on staff) / decision / judgment
HSK 7-9
chairman / director-general (of a company etc)
HSK 5
(formal) to make a judgement call; to decide
to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality / to adopt an original approach
to cut out
to punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic)
HSK 7-9
economic sanctions
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
dictator / autocrat
ruling
HSK 7-9
(sports) referee; umpire
ruling / adjudication
HSK 7-9
disarmament
genre / style / form of writing
to consider and decide
lit. to cut cloth according to the body (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
to reduce troop numbers / disarmament
to consider and decide
trimmer / paper cutter
lit. tailor the clothes to fit the body (idiom); fig. act according to real circumstances
tailor's shop
to cut back
dictatorship
judge
to dismiss / to lay off
(literary) to kill oneself; to commit suicide
to dissolve (a department etc); to eliminate (positions)
to tailor (clothes) / to trim (expenditure)
vice-chairman (of an organization) / vice president (of a company) / deputy governor (of a bank)
lit. to eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
to tailor / to make clothes
to display originality (idiom); to do things differently
place of judgment / law court
tailor
court ruling
to reply (to a letter)
Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注
to cut staff / to lay off employees
nuclear disarmament
referee
(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate / referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判)
cut down and merge
to reduce / to lessen / to cut down
to cut staff; to lay off employees
to crop / to trim
handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status)
to make an item of clothing / to tailor
tailor / dressmaker
to consider and decide
to handle


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