"Duties" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zhí wù post / position / job / duties
 shuì taxes / duties
 zhí shì to perform one's job / attendant / job / duties / (respectful appellation for the addressee) you / your Excellency / (Church) deacon
 qín wù service / duties / an orderly (military)
 jiā wù household duties / housework
 kè chuàn to appear on stage in an amateur capacity / (of a professional) to make a guest appearance / (fig.) to assume a role outside one's usual duties / to substitute for
 jìn zhí to discharge one's duties / conscientious
 bù wù zhèng yè not to engage in honest work / to ignore one's proper occupation / not to attend to one's proper duties
 tíng zhí to suspend (sb) from duties
 xián zá (employee) having no fixed duties
 fēi hǔ duì Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two / Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit
 fèng gōng shǒu fǎ to carry out official duties and observe the law
 kè jǐ fèng gōng self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom) / selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
 jiān kè to teach classes in addition to other duties / to hold several teaching jobs
 sè zé to carry out one's duties perfunctorily / to fulfill one's responsibility
 fèng gōng kè jǐ self-restraint and devotion to public duties (idiom) / selfless dedication / to serve the public interest wholeheartedly
 dài pén wàng tiān lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head / it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head / fig. it is hard to get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations / one can't perform a major task while bothered by other duties
 qī shì (archaic) the seven duties of a sovereign
 zhī chāi to assign corvée duties (forced labor)
 mǎn xiào at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
 mǎn fú at the end of the mourning period / to fulfill one's filial duties of mourning
 tè bié rèn wu lián Special Duties Unit, Hong Kong special police
 shū hū zhí shǒu to neglect one's duties
 xián rǒng officials with light duties / supernumeraries
 guān zhēng customs levy / customs post charging import duties
 zá shuì miscellaneous duties / various taxes
  Patrol and General Duties Unit
 chū kǒu shuì export duties
  Working Group on the Charter of the Economic Rights and Duties of State
  World Charter on the Rights and Duties of Humanity in Relation to the Global Water Cycle
  Convention respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land
  Convention concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War
绿  green countervailing duties
 huán jìng bǔ cháng guān shuì green countervailing duties
  assistant senior officer, staff duties
  Declaration on Rights and Duties of States
  American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
  Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States
 xún fèn to abide by one's duties
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