office building; office complex
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
venereal disease; sexually transmitted infection; sexually transmitted disease; VD; STI; STD
infection; contagion; becoming infected
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
deterioration; degradation; drop in quality; becoming unattractive (because of aging)
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
luck in business; luck in sales
river management; river improvement; flood control
volume of water kept in store
moving; relocation; change of address; transfer (of deeds, property, etc.); demise
torrential rain; heavy rain; cloudburst; downpour
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora
few decades; many decades; several decades
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
blow; shock; strike; batting
earnest; sincere; pressing; urgent; pertinent; appropriate
estimate (of costs); budget
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes
discharge (e.g. of water from a dam); release (of young fish into a river, pond, etc.); stocking (a river, etc. with fish); (arch.) banishment; (arch.) exile
principle; theory; fundamental truth
to be stunned; to be surprised; (lit.) one's eyes turn into dots (like a cartoon character)
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
merman; half man-half fish