(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
appointment; rendezvous; date
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
office (e.g. the Oval Office)
maid; helper; help; assistance
major company; big company; front castle gate; force attacking the front of a castle
skilled person; capable person; doer; performer; giver; bestower
to make time; to carve out some time (to do something)
not at all; don't worry about it; forget about it
bluntly (refusing, etc.); flatly; out of hand; completely
rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance; one who arrests; force attacking the rear of a castle; (opponent's) weak point
taking something out; carrying out; providing money oneself; paying with one's own money; corbel; strengthening under a seam (clothing)
custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; as a rule
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
to need; to demand; to take; to require
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
chief; main; principal; major
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
assistant ...; probationary ...
discord; (on) bad terms (with)
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets
a drop in the bucket; a drop in the ocean; (lit.) (pouring) water on a hot stone
southernmost tip (point, extremity, etc.)
mountain road; mountain trail
barrier; checkpoint; checking station
to pretend not to know; to feign ignorance; to tell a lie; to lie
to consider; to eye the possibility (of); to bring into view
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
to yell; to shout; to scream; to bawl
actual place; actual location; the spot; place where one is currently living