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雙開

简双开 · 繁雙開

Mandarin · pinyin shuāng kāi

to strip sb of their Party membership and government job (開除黨籍 kāi chú dǎng jí + 開除公職 kāi chú gōng zhí)
(computing) to run two instances of an app simultaneously (often with different accounts)

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開: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start
双: shuāng · set of two, pair, couple; both
开: kāi · open; initiate, begin, start

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1–1 · shuang1 kai1

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verb

(Mainland China, politics) to remove from the Party and public office (the most serious punishment within the CPC, generally imposed on a cadre)
(computing) to open dual app; to use app twin; to use an app with two different instances in parallel

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