公债 (公債)
gōng zhài
Pinyin

Definition

公债 (公債)
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gōng zhài
  1. government bond

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

公主
gōng zhǔ
  1. 1 princess
公交
gōng jiāo
  1. 1 public transportation
  2. 2 mass transit
  3. 3 abbr. for 公共交通[gōng gòng jiāo tōng]
公交车
gōng jiāo chē
  1. 1 public transport vehicle
  2. 2 town bus
  3. 3 classifier: 辆 liàng
公司
gōng sī
  1. 1 (business) company
  2. 2 company
  3. 3 firm
  4. 4 corporation
  5. 5 incorporated
  6. 6 classifier: 家 jiā
公园
gōng yuán
  1. 1 park (for public recreation)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
  3. 3 classifier: 座 zuò

Idioms (20)

假公济私
jiǎ gōng jì sī
  1. 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
公之于世
gōng zhī yú shì
  1. 1 to announce to the world (idiom)
  2. 2 to make public
  3. 3 to let everyone know
公之于众
gōng zhī yú zhòng
  1. 1 to make known to the masses (idiom); to publicize widely
  2. 2 to let the world know
公事公办
gōng shì gōng bàn
  1. 1 to do things in a strictly businesslike manner (idiom)
公而忘私
gōng ér wàng sī
  1. 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
  2. 2 selfless

Sample Sentences

我觉得事情没有这么黑白分明的，当然希腊的财政体质不好，再加上政府隐匿公债数字，假造数据，使得金融海啸之后整个情况一发不可收拾。
wǒ juéde shìqing méiyǒu zhème hēibáifēnmíng de ，dāngrán xīlà de cáizhèng tǐzhì bù hǎo ，zài jiāshang zhèngfǔ yǐnnì gōngzhài shùzì ，jiǎzào shùjù ，shǐde jīnróng hǎixiào zhīhòu zhěnggè qíngkuàng yīfābù kěshōushi 。
I think it's not as black and white as all that. Of course, Greek's financial system is bad and the government was hiding the amount of public debt and faking figures, leading to the entire situation after the global financial crisis to snowball.
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