(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
to have similar tastes (in food); to have compatible palates; to be in sync (of lip movements with spoken or sung vocals); (arch.) to understand each other; (arch.) to be in agreement
excessive; too much; unreasonable
(stroke of) luck; (unexpected) good fortune; godsend; windfall
in advance; beforehand; previously; ahead of time
just like that; quite so; I agree; that street
one's post; place of work; workplace
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
ship's fittings or rigging
electricity; (electric) light
can manufacturing; boiler manufacturing
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
robust (health); strong (constitution); sturdy
to be helpful; to be useful
technical; technological; practical
side or bottom of a ship; ship's hold; bottoms; shipping; tonnage; freight space
vessel; ship; shipping; seacraft
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; cleaning; removing; trap
scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation
dock; thorough physical examination
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
one class (of students); one group (of people); one set (of items); one pair
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile
boss (esp. yakuza); foreman
head of an organizational section; head of an organisational section
factory worker; craftsman; artisan
order; directive; instructions; command
delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
labor; labour; work; service
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
extra (charge, fare, etc.); premium; bonus; (after a number) tenths increase
central; main; just (done); counter for consecutive losses
Don (Spanish honorific); bigwig; important person
adds light emphasis or insistence to a statement; gives a statement a threatening or condescending tone
the Horse (seventh sign of the Chinese zodiac); hour of the Horse (around noon, 11am-1pm, or 12 noon-2pm); south; fifth month of the lunar calendar
beep; honk (car horn); buzz (buzzer); boo (wrong answer, like buzzer on quiz shows)