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


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