use one’s position to gain personal interests; further one’s private ends by means of official resources ❍ 原来这贾瑞最是个图便宜没行止的人，每在学中～，勒索子弟们请他； ……(《红楼梦》111) This Jia Rui was a spineless,unprincipled character who,as a means of obliging the boys to treat him,always displayed the most shameless favouritism in his settlement of classroom disputes.