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- to receive
- to accept
- to collect
- to put away
- to restrain
- to stop
- in care of (used on address line after name)
Trad. 收屍
- to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body
- (slang) (from Cantonese) to bow out after a long career
- to pack it in
- (of a gangster, prostitute etc) to get out of the game
- (of a business) to cease to operate
- to close the market (for the day)
- to close (a market, shop etc) for business
- to put in order
- to tidy up
- to pack
- to repair
- (coll.) to sort sb out
- to fix sb
Trad. 收攏
- to draw to oneself; to gather up; to collect
- to fold up (an umbrella, wings etc)
- to assemble (a party of persons)
- to rope in (some people)
Trad. 收攬
- to win the support of
- to get over to one's side
- to keep control of
Trad. 收斂
- to dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish
- to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc)
- to astringe
- (math.) to converge
- receiving party
- recipient
- debit side (of balance sheet), as opposed to credit side 付方[fu4 fang1]
- to constrict
- to draw tight
- to gather (one's thoughts)
- to bring to a close
- to pack (for a journey)
Trad. 報收
- (of a stock on the stock market) to close at (a certain price)
Trad. 收繳
- to recover (illegally obtained property)
- to seize
- to capture
- to force sb to hand over sth
- to levy
- to collect (works of art, dolls, antiques etc); to put away for safekeeping; (Internet) to bookmark
- a collection
Trad. 收錄
- to include (in a collection)
- to put together (stories, poems etc)
- to record
- to employ
- to recruit
- to receive a radio signal
- to make an audio recording
- (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics
- (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
- to urge sb to provide sth
- (esp.) to press (for payment of a debt); debt collection
Trad. 收養
- to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc)
- to adopt (a child)
- adoption
Trad. 絕收
- (agriculture) to have no harvest (due to flooding, diseases etc)
- reception (of transmitted signal)
- to receive
- to accept
- to admit
- to take over (e.g. a factory)
- to expropriate
- Wei Shou (506-572), writer and historian of Northern dynasty Qi 北齊|北齐[Bei3 Qi2], compiler of History of Wei of the Northern dynasties 魏書|魏书[Wei4 shu1]
Trad. 攬收
- (of a courier) to pick up; to collect (parcels or goods for shipping)
- to recycle
- to reclaim
- to retrieve
- to recover
- to recall (a defective product)
- to check for receipt of (an email, an enclosed item in a letter etc) (typically used in the polite imperative, e.g. after 請|请[qing3])
- to retreat
- to withdraw troops
- to recall troops
- fig. to finish work
- to wind up
- to call it a day
- used with negatives: the task is far from over
- to charge different prices according to the situation
- to collect (items) as appropriate
- (knitting, basket weaving etc) to cast off; to bind
- (of a wound) to close up; to heal
Trad. 簽收
- to sign to acknowledge receipt of sth (e.g. a delivery or document)
- to confiscate land for redistribution (China, 1947-52)
- (of a government) to acquire land (with compensation)
- to increase revenue
- to increase income by (x amount)
- to levy (a surcharge, tax increase etc)
- (of a school) to have an increased student intake
- to receive for storage
- delivery of goods
- to gather and store
- to store safely
- safe keeping
- final part of a go game (see 官子[guan1 zi3])
- endgame
- to finish up
- to come to the final stage
- to provide a place to stay
- to house
- to accommodate
- (of an institution etc) to take in
- to accept
- the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
Trad. 收發室
- mail room
- radio room (i.e. reception and transmission)
- recycling center; waste materials collection depot
- (computing) recycle bin
- temporary shelter
- hospice
- refuge (e.g. for animals)
- detention center
- the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc
Trad. 收拾殘局
- to clear up the mess
- to pick up the pieces
Trad. 坐收漁利
- benefit from others' dispute (idiom)
- to break even
- balance between income and expenditure
Trad. 收斂鋒芒
- to draw in one's claws
- to show some modesty
Trad. 不求收獲
- not expecting any reward
- not asking for favors
Trad. 收旗卷傘
- lit. to furl up flags and umbrellas (idiom)
- fig. to stop what one is doing
Trad. 收殘綴軼
- to gather and patch up sth that is badly damaged (idiom)
Trad. 秋收起義
- Autumn Harvest Uprising (1927), insurrection in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces led by Mao Zedong
Trad. 名利雙收
- both fame and fortune (idiom)
- both virtue and reward
Trad. 實收資本
- paid-in capital
- contributed capital (finance)
Trad. 國民收入
- measures of national income and output
Trad. 旱澇保收
- to provide a stable crop, regardless of drought or flood
- to bring a stable income
Trad. 覆水難收
- spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- what's done is done and can't be reversed
- the damage is done
- once divorced, there's no reuniting
Trad. 照單全收
- to accept without question
- to take sth at face value
Trad. 兼收並蓄
- incorporating diverse things (idiom)
- eclectic
- all-embracing
Trad. 潑水難收
- water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
Trad. 見好就收
- (idiom) to quit while one is ahead; to know when to stop
- to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted
- half-baked
Trad. 盡收眼底
- to take in the whole scene at once; to have a panoramic view
Trad. 鳴金收兵
- to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
Trad. 鳴金收軍
- to beat the gong to recall troops (idiom); to order a retreat
- to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted
- half-baked
Trad. 草草收場
- to rush to conclude a matter
- to end up abruptly
- (idiom) irremediable; unmanageable; out of hand; hopeless
- see 失之東隅，收之桑榆|失之东隅，收之桑榆[shi1 zhi1 dong1 yu2 , shou1 zhi1 sang1 yu2]
Trad. 顆粒無收
- not a single grain was reaped (as in a bad harvest year)
Trad. 美不勝收
- nothing more beautiful can be imagined (idiom)
- custody and reeducation (administrative punishment for prostitutes)