jpdb beta

step; stride; counter for steps

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to handle; to operate (a machine, etc.); to deal with (an issue); to manage; to treat (someone); to deal with (someone)

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gold

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member; the membership

3

chef

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cost price; purchase price; cost; production cost; manufacturing cost; prime cost

3

devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)

3

home; household; family; hearth

1

thousands; several thousand

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small number of people

1

labor; labour; manpower; working force

1

to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled

1

bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit

4

dashi; Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp

1

generous; unstinting

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to be somewhat different (from before, from others, etc.)

1

bottom of one's heart

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sale; sales; selling; marketing

1

based on; built on; made from

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wrong impression; subjective impression; assumption; prejudice

1

to lend a hand; to help

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kitchen; galley; (Internet) troll

2

comprehension; consent; understanding; OK; roger

2

farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation

1

trust (in); confidence; faith; reliance

1

random; by chance; haphazard; hit-or-miss; unplanned

1

at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

1

tasting; sampling

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mapo (style of dish); dish featuring minced meat stir-fried and seasoned with chili bean paste (e.g. mabo nasu); mapo tofu (spicy Sichuan dish of tofu and minced meat); mabo tofu

2

foreign (product, esp. agricultural); of foreign manufacture

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low-priced; cheap; shallow (e.g. sympathy); superficial; link back to discussion group, bulletin board, etc. posting

2

natural growth; wild growth

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spice

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kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like

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to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for

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to have an eye on; to zero in on

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

1

soy sauce; soya sauce; shoyu

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sugar

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arrangement (of music); adaptation (of a story, recipe, etc.); interpretation; arranging (objects, a meeting, etc.); organization

2

to become a (bad) habit; to become a habitual practice; to become addictive; to grow on one; to become moreish

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ethnic

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flavour; flavor; taste; charm; appeal; interest

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stagnancy; stillness

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to steam (food, towel, etc.); to be hot and humid; to be sultry

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bread roll

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existing

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to have a meal; to eat; to make a living; to earn one's bread

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reward; honorarium; remuneration

3

cost of materials

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