了事

liǎoshì
  1. to dispose of a matter
  2. to be done with it

CEDICT

to settle a matter (usually perfunctorily or incompletely)

Wiktionary

  1. 明白事理。
  2. 辦妥事情。
  3. 辦事能力強。
  4. 平息、了結。

重編國語辭典

Examples

他遇到了事故。

He had an accident.

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我忽略了事实。

I overlooked the truth.

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传闻变成了事实。

The rumors became reality.

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他们报告目击了事故。

They reported seeing the incident.

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警察到达了事故现场。

The police got to the scene of the accident.

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Entry Composition

=1 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=1 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
2 事 shì
  1. matter
  2. thing
  3. item
  4. work
  5. affair

classifiers: 件, 樁, 回

Containing this entry

出了事 chūleshì sth bad happened
敷衍了事 fūyǎnliǎoshì (idiom) to do things half-heartedly; to merely go through the motions
草草了事 cǎocǎoliǎoshì
  1. to rush through the work
  2. to get through a thing carelessly
虛應了事 xūyìngliǎoshì see 虛應故事 xūyìnggùshì