means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
what with this and that; for a number of reasons
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
shortage of stock; scarcity of goods
smuggling; contraband trade
combination; union; incorporation; congruence
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
newspaper story (article, account)
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
arrest; apprehension; capture
different item; different lot
business conditions; the market; good (economic) times; prosperity; liveliness; energy
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
to be profitable (business); to pay; to be in the black
tall, lanky person; bean pole; tall and thin; tall and lanky
authorities; relevant authorities; authorities concerned; this office
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
clever; intelligent; well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; (arch.) good (with words)
business efforts; corporate efforts
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to easily defeat; to eat (one's opponent) alive; to bilk; to swindle; to dupe
hey!; wait a minute!; whoa!; boohoo; waaaa
ass; arse; rear; end; acupuncture point; hole
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
pot; volcanic crater; (one's) buttocks; male homosexual; effeminate man
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryo period)
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
this world; this life; the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.); this corrupt world; present world
to slash back; to strike back; to counterattack; to cut the wheel; to perform a twisting backward knee trip
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
with a start; with a jump