Definition

1. Noun:
   • Fortune; Assets: Property or wealth accumulated through effort over time, serving as the foundation for one's livelihood and stability.
   • Legacy; Enterprise: A significant, established career, business, or achievement, often built up over generations.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Ông ấy đã dành cả đời để xây dựng cơ nghiệp. (He spent his whole life building his fortune/assets.)
  • Cơ nghiệp của gia đình họ đã trải qua ba thế hệ. (Their family's legacy/enterprise has lasted for three generations.)
  • Con trâu là đầu cơ nghiệp. (The buffalo is the foundation of one's livelihood.) [Proverb]

Advanced Usage

• "Gây dựng cơ nghiệp": To build up a fortune/enterprise.
  • Cha ông ta đã khó khăn lắm mới gây dựng được cơ nghiệp này. (Our ancestors faced many hardships to build up this enterprise.)
• "Đầu cơ nghiệp": The primary asset or foundation of one's livelihood.
  • Trong xã hội nông nghiệp, mảnh đất chính là đầu cơ nghiệp. (In an agricultural society, the plot of land is the foundation of one's livelihood.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sự nghiệp (noun): Career, cause. Often refers to one's professional life or a grand undertaking for a cause, sometimes overlapping with the second meaning of but generally more abstract (e.g., - revolutionary cause).
• Tài sản (noun): Assets, property. A more general and common term for possessions and wealth.
• Cơ đồ (noun): Foundation, establishment. Often used in a broader, sometimes more abstract sense for a built-up situation or power base.

Synonyms

• Gia tài: Family assets, inheritance.
• Vốn liếng: Capital, resources (often used for business).

Related Phrases

• "Giữ gìn cơ nghiệp": To preserve/maintain the family fortune or legacy.
  • Nhiệm vụ của con cháu là phải giữ gìn cơ nghiệp của tổ tiên. (The duty of descendants is to preserve the legacy of their ancestors.)
• "Cơ nghiệp đồ sộ": A vast/immense fortune or enterprise.
  • Vị doanh nhân ấy để lại một cơ nghiệp đồ sộ. (That businessman left behind a vast fortune.)

Related Idioms

• "Cơ nghiệp nhà tan": (Literally: fortune established, home broken). Implies that while building a fortune, family harmony is lost.
  • Đừng vì mải mê làm ăn mà đến nỗi cơ nghiệp nhà tan. (Don't be so engrossed in business that you end up with a fortune but a broken home.)

noun

1. Fortune; Assets