principal occupation; core business
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
youth; child (esp. of the young son of someone of high social standing); young; new
making; forming; cultivating; form; appearance
quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
to make trouble; to break down; to be out of order
to answer; to respond; to meet; to satisfy; to accept
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
to some degree; up to a point; to some extent
thick; deep; kind; cordial; abundant
closed-stacks (e.g. in a library); closed shelf system
open access (in a library); open shelves
arrival of goods; goods received
catalogue; catalog; inventory; certificate indicating an impending gift
urgent business; pressing need; imperative
scene of the crime (offense, offence)
perception; sensing; noticing
self-defense; self-defence
danger to oneself; (fear of) one's physical safety
accidental; incidental; occasional; casual
house built on sand; house of cards
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); proprietress; (arch.) entertaining someone as one's guest
aimlessly; unexpectedly (showing up); slowly swaying; staggering; moving feebly
probability; likelihood; chances
management; administration; operation
to be aware of; to know about; to be concerned in; to have to do with
pair; the two; both persons; both things
to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in
to excel in one thing; to be a master in an art
attaching the polite suffix "-sama" to somebody's name (more polite than "-san")
to address (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan"; to refer to (someone) without a title suffix
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
planning; planning ability; deliberateness
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective
matter of the highest priority; top priority; first priority
independent; autonomous; voluntary; of one's own initiative
to devise an elaborate plan; to exercise one's ingenuity; to work out a scheme