Such questioning is routine police business.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
例行公事
routine business
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
routine business
02
usual practice
03
mere formality
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 例行公事 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 例行公事 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Ten years after the wedding, everything is just routine.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 例行公事.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 例行公事.
Directly before
- 只是例行公事1
- 警察例行公事1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 例行公事
What does 例行公事 mean in Chinese?
例行公事 (lìxínggōngshì) means routine business.
How do you pronounce 例行公事?
例行公事 is pronounced lìxínggōngshì.
Is 例行公事 an HSK word?
例行公事 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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