cost-cutting; cost reduction
affiliate; member; entrant; participant; (telephone) subscriber
good offices; auspices; sponsorship; village official (during the Edo period)
clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)
career track; promotional track; fast track; upward mobility
comfortable (to live in); snug; cozy; cosy
fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing
regular customer; valued client
dressing oneself; putting on clothes; embezzlement
marriage; marriage tie; love knot
to be troublesome; to require the aid and labour of others
deep psyche; unconscious mind; depth psychology
first person (to do); person going first; first place; top position; person in the top position
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
like cats and dogs; (on) very bad terms; (lit.) relationship of dogs and monkeys
flying; false start; doing something before the arranged time; breaking a street date
regular customer; valued client
exclamation used to scold practitioners (in Zen); scolding or threatening with a shout
depression; recession; slump
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning
personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs
peep; peeping; peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures
intent; intention; bad faith; mens rea (guilty mind)
outside of one's area of expertise
we; us; I; me; my store (business, etc.)
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
this and that; one thing or another
success; prosperity; boom
cut; reduction; curtailment
reputation; respectability
having special circumstances (e.g. problems, issues, advantages, flaws, defects, etc.); imperfect (merchandise); with defects
chit; sales slip; voucher
to say; to tell; to state; to do
at full speed; impetuously; precipitately; headlong