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arbitration
HSK 7-9
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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
vice-chairman (of an organization) / vice president (of a company) / deputy governor (of a bank)
genre / style / form of writing
legal sanction / prescribed punishment / punishable by law
chairman / director-general (of a company etc)
HSK 5
dictatorship
economic sanctions
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 punish / punishment / sanctions (incl. economic)
HSK 7-9
to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality / to adopt an original approach
to display originality (idiom); to do things differently
(literary) to kill oneself; to commit suicide
to tailor (clothes) / to trim (expenditure)
Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注
(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate / referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判)
to consider and decide


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