- lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom)
- fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
Characters
- 招 (招): to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- 兵 (兵): soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 买 (買): to buy; to purchase
- 马 (馬): surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 招兵买马
- MDBG: 招兵买马
- Examples with 招兵买马 on Tatoeba
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