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乘势
chéng​shì

to seize the opportunity

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
乘势 乘勢 chéng​shì
to seize the opportunity
to take advantage of a favorable situation; to strike while the iron is hot
to use power
(literary) to take advantage of one's power or influence to do something; to rely on authority

Frequency

Written text
1.18 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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