1 free (of charge)

1 to vote

2 vote

1 ticket

2 ballot

3 banknote

4 classifier: 张 zhāng

5 person held for ransom

6 amateur performance of Chinese opera

7 classifier for groups, batches, business transactions

1 in order to avoid

2 so as not to

1 to excuse sb

2 to exempt

3 to remove or dismiss from office

4 to avoid

5 to avert

6 to escape

7 to be prohibited

1 to remove sth that could be used as a pretext (idiom)

1 to be unavoidable (idiom)

1 unable to break the custom (idiom)

2 bound by conventions

1 a financial loss may prevent disaster (idiom)