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透支

  • Pinyin: tòu zhī
  • Traditional: 透支
  • HSK: new-7+
  • Part of speech: v / vn
  • (banking) to overdraw
  • to take out an overdraft
  • an overdraft
  • to overspend (i.e. expenditure in excess of revenue)
  • (old) to draw one’s wage in advance
  • (fig.) to exhaust (one’s enthusiasm, energy etc)
  • to damage a natural resource through overuse