forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
to serve in the army / in active service
military campaign
(of military personnel or athletes) to retire / (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
to enslave
reserve duty / reserve service / military reserve
military service
to serve in the army
(military) active duty / (sports) currently active (player, athlete etc)
forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
to put to work (servant or animal) / to make use of for labor
draft animals / beasts of burden
males eligible for military service / draftee / abbr. for 役齡男子|役龄男子
draft animal / beast of burden
enlistment age
one person taking on two tasks simultaneously
to use (an animal or servant) / working (animal) / (beast) of burden / causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)
servant
corvee / laborer
forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen
forced labor / corvee
detention
farm work
to accomplish the whole task at one stroke (idiom)
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
bailiff of feudal yamen
chameleon
odd jobs / part-time worker
war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor
to order (sb) about / (by extension) to put to use
Battle of Britain (Jul-Oct 1940)
Battle of Midway, June 1942
Battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists
Pingjin Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
Battle of Guadalcanal (August 1942 – February 1943), a pivotal campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II
Liaoshen Campaign (Sep-Nov 1948), the first of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27