waiting on a table; serving (at dinner); waiter; waitress; office boy; office girl
mechanism; mechanical parts; jack-in-the-box
use of seductive techniques to attain one's ends (usu. of women)
mudslinging contest; mudslinging match
partition between two rooms; room divider; partition wall
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
dress; outfit; getup; to dress oneself; to outfit oneself
waiter; waitress; waitperson
clockwork (motor, etc.); spring action
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
hasty preparation; cramming; goods prepared in a hurry (after they were already needed); makeshift; half-baked
resignation; seventy years of age
clearing of accounts; evening-up of accounts; liquidation
extemporary; improvised; extemporaneous
learned at ...; acquired at ...
dressing oneself (e.g. to go out); outfitting oneself
early closing; finishing (work) early
finishing up (a job); selling out; buying up
preparing for winter; winter clothes
specially tailored; tailor-made; specially arranged (train, plane, etc.)
protagonist (in the first half of a play)
getting ready to go out in the snow; clothing for going out in the snow; snow gear
settlement; winding or straightening up
protagonist (in the second half of a play)
making a piece of clothing with the same cloth inside and out; making a kimono with lining of the same fabric
waterproofing (of a building); flashing; weathering
end-of-year settling of accounts
tail end; tailender; last person (to arrive, finish etc.); dead last
men pressed into forced labor (ritsuryō system); palanquin bearer (Edo period)