以工代赈
yǐ​gōng​dài​zhèn

to provide work as relief

  • created sense approved 以工代赈/以工代賑 · yǐ​gōng​dài​zhèn · to provide work as relief — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    以工代赈 / 以工代賑

    yǐ​gōng​dài​zhèn

    to provide work as relief

    to provide disaster relief or poverty assistance by organizing people to work on public infrastructure projects rather than giving direct aid

    以 (literal) → 以 · yǐ · by means of 工 (literal) → 工 · gōng · work 代 (literal) → 代 · dài · to substitute 赈 (literal) → 赈/賑 · zhèn · to provide relief

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense