1 city

2 town

3 classifier: 座 zuò

1 system for identifying users (on a rail network, the Internet etc)

1 urban district

2 downtown

3 city center

1 marketplace

2 market (also in abstract)

1 city resident

1 to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)

2 Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)

1 chance remarks can lead to public execution (idiom)

1 to gain the initiative by striking first (idiom); to preempt

2 to anticipate

3 preemptive

1 (idiom) to use methods in line with local circumstances

1 (idiom) to use methods appropriate to the current situation