zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
to spend (money) like water; to spend (money) like it grows on trees; to throw around (one's money); to play ducks and drakes with
contention; competition; rivalry; quarrel
town; city; municipal; urban
central part; heart (of a city)
to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)
(what) one is trying to say; (what) one wants to say; (what) one is saying; (what) one means
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
to understand; to make out
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
absolutely (ought to); by all means; all; entirely
fingers; fingertips; underling; stooge; tool
sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
fair and square; open and aboveboard
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
important position; strategic point; important point; main point; essentials
guard; security (officer); guardsman
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
to carry around; to carry on one's person
(nature of a) crime; (criminal) charge
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above
sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation
greatly energetic; ferocious; extreme; severe
bow (and arrow; esp. of a noble)
skillfully; admirably; really well; excellently
stake all (on something); play for all or nothing; throwing all into a task