chairman; director-general (of a company etc)

ruling; adjudication

to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic)

to make an item of clothing; to tailor

tailor; dressmaker

ruling

dictator; autocrat

vice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company); deputy governor (of a bank)

to cut staff; to lay off employees

dictatorship

to cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim; to reduce; to diminish; to cut back (e.g. on staff); decision; judgment

arbitration

judge

(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate; referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判[zhu3 cai2 pan4])

genre; style; form of writing

to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)

(literary) to kill oneself; to commit suicide

to cut staff; to lay off employees

to reduce troop numbers; disarmament

disarmament

to reduce; to lessen; to cut down

to crop; to trim

to tailor; to make clothes

to cut out

to handle

to consider and decide

cut down and merge

(formal) to make a judgement call; to decide

to dissolve (a department etc); to eliminate (positions)

to consider and decide

to cut back

to reply (to a letter)

to dismiss; to lay off

to consider and decide

(sports) referee; umpire

nuclear disarmament

Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4 Zhu4]

referee

place of judgment; law court

trimmer; paper cutter

tailor

tailor's shop

to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality; to adopt an original approach

legal sanction; prescribed punishment; punishable by law

court ruling

to display originality (idiom); to do things differently

lit. tailor the clothes to fit the body (idiom); fig. act according to real circumstances

economic sanctions

(lit.) to cut cloth according to the body (idiom); (fig.) to act according to actual circumstances