jpdb beta

road; path; way; set of practices; Buddhist teachings; Taoism; modern administrative region of Japan (Hokkaido)

2

privileged class

3

profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc.) (esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing

1

proxy; agent; substitute; deputy; alternate; representative

1

approval; agreement; support; favour; favor

1

group (usu. of people)

2

confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging

4

to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb

1

to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something

1

looking pale; looking unwell

1

success; hit

4

seventeenth day of the month; seventeen days

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section meeting

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original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal

3

resolution; vote; decision

2

composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization

1

to flatter; to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to suck up (to); to toady (to)

1

party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow

1

to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear

1

closing; closure; shutdown; lockout

8

adjournment; recess

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adjournment

1

breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)

7

to pass on an order; to pass the word

4

solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy

2

cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship

1

with all due respect; I'm sorry, but ...; I'm afraid ...

1

they; them

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election

1

something; nothing (with neg. verb)

1

argument; discussion; dispute; controversy

1

assembly hall; the House

5

what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?

1

beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn

1

lunch money

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thrift; economy; frugality

1

to waste time

1

debate; discussion

3

wooden figure; wooden doll; puppet; blockhead; good-for-nothing; fool

1

Jew; jus

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tennis

1

antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation

1

field; sports stadium; arena

1

big craze; boom; popular trend; widespread contagion; large outbreak

1

every place; various places

1

construction; establishment

1

conference room; place of assembly

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to expel; to drive out

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to swarm; to gather

1

to squash; to crush; to flatten

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