jpdb beta

shut-in; stay-at-home; recluse; (lit.) security officer of one's own home

6

life; living; livelihood; (one's) living

7

to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away

1

to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize

1

Night Flight from Moscow

1

secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings

1

staff; member (club, society, etc.)

1

meaning; called; said

3

treachery; betrayal; perfidy

1

scheme; plot; artifice; stratagem; trick

1

is that so?; I see; right; oh

6

next day

1

to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by

1

attendance at a castle

3

to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want

4

to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

1

opinion; view; comment; scolding; reprimand; rebuke

7

pleasant; agreeable; comfortable; refreshing

2

vassal; retainer

2

Japanese contingent; Japanese players; Japanese competitors; Japanese companies; Team Japan

1

to shut out; to bar; to lock out; to exclude

1

excuse; pretext

1

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)

1

one's person

3

to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to lean on; to put one's weight on

4

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

2

man; male; masculine gender

2

indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive

6

office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman

1

business suit

4

hair style; coiffure; hairdo

1

side parting; hair parted to one side

1

government office; public office

1

(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh

1

everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular

2

to recall; to remember

1

target area (e.g. archery); range (e.g. rifle, firing)

64

no hope of getting ahead

1

office worker; salaried worker; white-collar worker

1

substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality

1

bureau director; office chief

7

to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)

3

to take (trouble); to attend (to business); to command (army)

3

to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

3

person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager

2

belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of; serving (in the military, congress, etc.)

3

(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups

1

corresponding to (in meaning, function, etc.); being equivalent to; appropriate; suitable; to be proportionate to; to be in keeping with

3

representation; representative; exemplification; typification; leader; switchboard number

4

always; all the time; constantly; frequently; often

3