吃空额
Traditional form:
吃空額
Pinyin (reading):
chīkòng'é
Definitions:
- to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
Characters:
- 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
- 空 - hollow, empty, deserted, bare
- 额 - forehead; quota, amount
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