HanTrace

事务

shìwù

Meaning

  • (political, economic etc) affairs
  • work
  • transaction (as in a computer database)

Example

你最好不要插手别人的事务。

It's best if you don't poke your nose into other people's business.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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Not to be confused with: 事物 (shìwù, thing; object) · 实物 (shíwù, material object) · 食物 (shíwù, food) · 失误 (shīwù, lapse)