jpdb beta

nice; likeable; desirable

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reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for

4

hiring from another company; recruitment; quick costume change (taking off outer costume); drawing (wire, pipes, metal plate); extraction; pulling out

1

(talent) scout; recruiter; scouting; headhunting; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts

1

following (in the footsteps of); catching up with; coming level with

5

to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use

1

to do something with painful reluctance; (lit.) to have one's hair pulled from behind

1

going with; accompanying

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chance; opportunity; machine; aircraft; counter for aircraft; counter for (remaining) lives

4

to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to set free; to let go; to fail to ...

4

stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company

1

to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself

1

(eating or drinking) to one's heart's content

2

to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess

4

absence of permission; lack of permission; absence of (advance) notice; lack of notice

1

betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)

1

one way or another; in many ways; in various ways

2

at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because

1

to go past; to pass; to pass by

1

standing in a row; forming a line; alignment

2

with a snap; (breaking) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well

2

temple (on side of head)

2

period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; strictness; cruelty

2

full particulars; all the details; the whole story; everything (about); from beginning to end

2

stage assistant dressed in black; stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller

3

pitch-black; jet-black

2

birds

3

to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate

1

more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time

10

to show up; to appear; to turn up

9

chastity; virtue; fidelity; feminine modesty

1

to bump heads; to bump into each other; to collide head-on; to meet by chance; to encounter; to run into

2

hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)

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candidate; applicant

1

lead; leading; leading (in points, goals, etc.); getting ahead; lead (from a base); lead (of an article); lede

2

to make (someone) realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home (to someone); to teach (someone) a lesson

1

dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence

3

horses and cattle

3

to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around

5

sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable

3

simple and honest; unsophisticated; simpleminded; naive; unspoiled

2

to take care of someone; to look after someone; to help; to give help where it isn't wanted; to be officious; to bother

2

junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student

1

to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage

3

playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together

7

putting an end to; bringing to a close; person who opens and closes the curtains (in a theatre)

1

temporary; transient; trifling; trivial; careless; perfunctory

1

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

2

to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct

1

intervention

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