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Definitions
- 1. mechanism; gear
- 2. machine-operated
- 3. office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body
- 4. stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
Words Containing 机关
(Communist) Party and government organizations
administrative authority
machine-operated stage scenery
financial organization
governing body of an autonomous territory
legislature
machine cannon
machine gun
government (viewed as an organization)
the press
also written 輕機槍|轻机枪
locomotive
official (government-operated) newspaper
the agency in charge of (e.g. a program); the relevant government body
judicial authorities
civil service
also written 重機槍|重机枪
public security bureau
to see through a trick
if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in \A Dream of Red Mansions\ 紅樓夢|红楼梦[hóng lóu mèng])