chī​kòng'é

to embezzle through ghost employees

  • created sense approved 吃空额/吃空額 · chī​kòng'é · to embezzle through ghost employees — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    吃空额 / 吃空額

    chī​kòng'é

    to embezzle through ghost employees

    To embezzle by reporting more people on a payroll than actually exist and pocketing the extra wages.

    吃, 空额

    吃 (literal) → 吃 · chī · to live on 空额 (literal) → 空额/空額 · kòng'é · vacancy

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

    created sense