to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (letters)
account book; ledger; register
to write to; to send word to; to hand over (official business)
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
dissatisfaction; discontent; disapproval; objection; complaint; protest
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
waiting time; latency; standby time (e.g. cellular phones); queueing time
without (doing); instead of; if (it) isn't done; if (one) doesn't do ...; if not ...; unless ...
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
a little; paltry; piddling; stud; chad
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)
to be profitable; to yield a profit
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
to hold back (e.g. emotions); to rein in (e.g. a horse, unruly people); to get the better of; to control; to command
to groan; to moan; to roar; to howl; to hum (engine, wind, etc.); to buzz; to ooh and aah (in admiration)
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
full view; plain sight; completely visible
manual or physical labor; manual or physical labour
trade; buying and selling
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
to subsist; to keep on living
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
to be helpful; to be useful
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
entry (in a form, register, diary, etc.); filling in; filling out
contract; compact; agreement