to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including

apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")

only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when; only in the case that; unless

to eliminate; to remove; to exclude; to rule out

to remove; to sack; to get rid of; to relieve (sb of their duties); to free; to lift (an embargo); to rescind (an agreement)

to eliminate; to remove

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to expel (a member of an organization); to fire (an employee)