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wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else

2

diligent; earnest; attentive to detail; brisk (working, moving); frequent (e.g. checking)

1

top; summit; vertex

1

court lady; lady-in-waiting (Heian period); separate room in a palace (esp. for a lady) (Heian period); room for a very low class prostitute; very low class prostitute

1

person's name

1

assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

1

personnel affairs; human affairs; human resources; HR

3

to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate

2

frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category

1

to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent

2

to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into

1

adviser; advisor; consultant

2

secretariat

2

politburo; political bureau (of a communist party)

1

bureau director; office chief

2

secretary-general; director-general; executive director; executive secretary

3

secretariat; executive office

1

to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!

1

to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave

1

breakfast

16

sausage

1

to bite into; to sink one's teeth into

1

a throw; a fall

1

area under direct control (of the shogun)

1

terrible; awful; I don't even want to talk about it; without reason; inevitable; that's just how it is

1

to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy

1

exchange; conversion

1

tax

1

exemption; exoneration; discharge

2

rare; seldom

1

pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting

1

system; institution; organization; organisation

6

anything and everything; from top to toe; from A to Z

1

on this occasion; now; in these circumstances; with this opportunity

1

bell (used for summoning or signalling); buzzer

3

leadership; initiative; spearhead

2

to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part

3

washing-up; dish-washing

2

important matter; requirement; requisite; necessary condition

1

full dress; formal dress; uniform

1

man; male; masculine gender

1

tall (of a person)

1

thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

2

early in the morning

2

hindrance; intrusion

7

humble; modest

1

moderate; reserved; conservative; humble; mild-mannered; self-effacing

3

to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award

2

being too late; losing one's final chance

1

staying; sojourn

1