退佃
Chinese
retreat; to decline; to move back; to withdraw | farmer | ||
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simp. and trad. (退佃) | 退 | 佃 |
Pronunciation
Verb
退佃
- (of a landlord) to cancel a tenancy
- 去年七八月間,地主還有好多退佃另佃的事。十月以後,無人敢退佃了。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 毛澤東選集 (1991). English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Qùnián qībāyuè jiān, dìzhǔ háiyǒu hǎoduō tuìdiàn lìngdiàn de shì. Shíyuè yǐhòu, wúrén gǎn tuìdiàn le. [Pinyin]
- In July and August of last year there were still many instances of landlords cancelling tenancies and re-letting the land. But after October nobody dared cancel a tenancy.
去年七八月间,地主还有好多退佃另佃的事。十月以后,无人敢退佃了。 [MSC, simp.]
- (in ancient China, of a prostitute) to be removed from the official register and allowed leave one's trade