1 to delete

2 to cancel

1 government

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 politics

2 political

1 to eliminate

2 to remove

1 to get rid of

2 to remove

3 to exclude

4 to eliminate

5 to wipe out

6 to divide

7 except

8 not including

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch

2 to eradicate

1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)

1 lit. to govern from behind the curtain

2 to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)

1 efficient government, people at peace (idiom); all is well with the state and the people