吃空饷
Traditional form:
吃空餉
Pinyin (reading):
chīkòngxiǎng
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
- 饷 - rations and pay for soldiers
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