jpdb beta

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

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supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super

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sunrise; half-melon shaped bun

1

Internet cafe; net cafe

3

Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo

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east; yeast

1

family restaurant (i.e. a restaurant with varied and inexpensive menu options); casual dining restaurant

3

interrogation room; interview room; sweatbox

1

to come off (of a button, handle, lid, etc.); to go away (of a fever, pain, swelling, etc.); to disappear; to be harvested; to be picked; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)

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three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)

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human relations; personal relationships

1

rather than; more ... than ...

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vague; unclear; elusive; hazy

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never mind!; don't worry about it

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(one's) wife; (someone's) wife; landlady

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recipient (e.g. of mail); addressee; payee; beneficiary

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exemption from responsibility

2

votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

4

to shake; to sway; to rock; to become unstable; to become unsettled; to be shaken

1

separate; respective; different

1

fraudulent accounting; window-dressing settlement of accounts; creative accounting

1

the future; future prospects

1

(someone else's) parents; both parents

1

to maintain itself; to last; to make itself pay; to make a living; to keep going

1

which; what (way)

2

which (of three or more); well; now; c'mon

1

several months

1

murder for insurance money

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to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished

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insurance payout; insurance money

7

to pay

3

in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

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to apologize (apologise); to refuse; to decline; to be unable to bear; to be defeated (by)

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insurance company

2

period; term; interval

1

to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize

1

(advance) notice; preliminary announcement; warning; trailer (for a film, TV show, etc.)

1

series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza

1

to behave; to conduct oneself; to act; to treat (someone) to (food or drink); to entertain (e.g. to lunch)

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to notice; to realize; to realise; to regain consciousness; to come to (one's senses); to come round

1

to arrange beforehand; to make a sign to each other; to conspire

1

direction (of a play, film, etc.); production; organization (of an event); arrangement; staging (for effect)

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to keep away; to keep at a distance

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to take by deception; to defraud someone of; to swindle someone out of; to cheat someone out of

1

most; extremely

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hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory

1

right beside; close to; nearby

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black-market lending; illegal loan

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trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade

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office

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