jpdb beta

(compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 65); mandatory retirement; reaching retirement age

2

title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank

1

business card

1

unknown; obscure; insignificant

1

ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

1

normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station

18

to age; to become old

1

simply; merely; only; solely

1

to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to

11

Earth; the globe

2

abrupt; sudden

1

abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning

3

friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement

1

inheritance; bequest; legacy; heritage

1

a piece; a scrap; a fragment; iota; modicum; trace

1

bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread

3

compensation; equivalent value; consideration

1

one thin flat object; one sheet

2

coin; hard currency

2

craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman

1

wheat

1

butter

1

producer; grower; maker; manufacturer

2

to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to wield (a tool, etc.); to use

1

trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade

2

sales; selling; marketing

1

oil-producing countries (nations)

1

daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision

2

to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated

1

to be visible; to be clear; to be evident; to be certain

6

with all due respect; I'm sorry, but ...; I'm afraid ...

1

an abstract argument

1

a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

3

plural; multiple; several

2

repetition; repeat; reiteration; repeatedly

1

student (esp. a university student)

1

taking something as absolute truth; regarding something as absolute

1

encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)

1

system

1

to become familiar with; to fit in; to adapt oneself; to get used to; to grow accustomed to

1

to take refuge in; to succeed in running away

1

household violence (esp. adolescent children towards parents); domestic violence

1

in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely

1

to have one's horizons broadened

1

outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world

1

changing schools

1

dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course

3

report; notification; registration

1

fate; destiny (esp. as a mysterious force that binds two people together); relationship (e.g. between two people); bond; family ties; affinity; opportunity

1

to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst

1