以工代赈
Traditional form:
以工代賑
Pinyin (reading):
yǐgōngdàizhèn
Definitions:
- to provide work to relieve poverty
Characters:
- 以 - according to; so as to; because of; then
- 工 - labor, work; laborer, worker
- 代 - era, generation; to substitute for, to replace
- 赈 - to relieve, to aid; rich
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