jpdb beta

to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)

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predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

1

monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself

1

foreign policy

1

body build

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war dog

2

long-term stay

1

nursing; looking after

4

to fall prostrate

4

to lean on; to recline on; to rely on; to depend on

2

to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)

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to be extremely sleepy; to be at the brink of falling asleep

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to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in

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to spend all of one's time in idle amusement

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letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter

2

(short) run; drive; ride; spin

2

pen

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piling up high (food in a bowl); filling (a bowl); heaped bowl

1

to wait for one's punishment; to wait before one gets what's coming to one; (lit.) to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)

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journalist

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outside the company

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well-informed person

2

only the results matter; it's all about the results

1

interviewee; subject of an interview

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to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)

1

to change; to replace

2

full ripeness; full maturity

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café au lait

2

restless; fidgety; in a hurry

1

to grow old; to age

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to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other

1

if possible; preferably; if circumstances allow

1

re-erection; rebuilding

2

court service

2

hot

5

suspension of business

1

rice and curry; curry rice

1

being addicted to; being wholly absorbed by; falling ill; becoming sick

1

dinnertime; suppertime

1

in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter

1

faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little

1

perpetual night; continuing all night

1

sunshine; sunlight

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migratory bird; bird of passage

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to come back

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surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality

1

aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing

1

to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different

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every person; each one; everybody

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to slip through; to slip past; to evade

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