apartment building; apartment block; apartment house; apartment
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)
(one's) skin colour; skin color; skin tone; flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange
woman; female; feminine gender
clerk; office worker; office staff
from the standpoint of; as a matter of (e.g. fact); aboard (a ship or vehicle); on top of; first volume (e.g. book); superior quality; best
the defence; defence side
condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)
demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
impossible; unlikely; improbable
wife and children; (arch.) wife
man; male; masculine gender
to pilfer; to filch; to swipe
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
to be sacked; to be fired; to be dismissed; to be beheaded
price; cost; value; worth; value
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
company; friendship; association; society; acquaintance
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
eradication; extermination; destruction; suppression
to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)
to offer (a suggestion, etc.); to propose (an idea, etc.); to approach with (a proposal, etc.)
to solicit; to demand; to extort
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out
for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
to leave behind; to put off; to postpone
observation; survey; watching
to choose at one's own discretion; to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)
witness stand; witness box
asking; enquiring; searching; looking for
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
musical composition title; song title
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
investigation (e.g. into someone's guilt); questioning; pressing; catching up; overtaking