fee; charge; rate; material
person who makes unreasonable complaints to a company; incessant complainer; chronic complainer
merchant; trader; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine
neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
discontinuation (of business); closing down; giving up (one's practice); retiring
small profits and quick returns
goodness; excellence; virtue
have to do; must; should; ought to
mainland; the country proper; native country; country where one was born; pure land; Buddha realm
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)
superstition; acting superstitiously (for good luck)
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
being up to the person himself
what percentage; what ratio; what rate; what proportion
ability; capacity; capability; physical strength
to begin; to set about; to start
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist
free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action
short; shortstop; short (circuit); short hair; short selling
to give an impression; to make an impression
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
weak; feeble; delicate; frail; helpless
to use X as a selling point
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
seducer; smooth talker; picking up women; hitting on women; moderate party; moderate
to run swiftly; to dash; to rush; to race
timewasting; killing time
clear; precise; definite; distinct
to claim lives; to cause deaths; to result in fatalities
decisive moment; turning point; critical moment; win-or-bust situation
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
severe wound; serious wound; gash