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裁员
cái​yuán

to reduce staff

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
裁员 裁員 cái//yuán
to reduce staff
to lay off employees; to cut staff levels in a company or organization

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.35 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
4.60 per million

Details

HSK 2.0
Level 6

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 裁人 cái​rén
  • 减员 jiǎn​yuán

Antonym

  • 增员 zēng​yuán
  • 补员 bǔ​yuán

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)