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代管
Mandarin · pinyin dài guǎn
Meanings
- to administer
- to manage
- to hold in trust or escrow
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4–3 · dai4 guan3
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verb
- to be managed by another
- (Mainland China, of county-level cities) to be unconstitutionally but de facto administered by a prefecture-level city, in place of directly under the jurisdiction of the correspondent provincial government de jure
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