jpdb beta

senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer

8

large tree

22

to leave the company

2

to be surprised; to be amazed; to be frightened; surprise (e.g. surprise party)

1

retirement; resignation

4

to apologize; to apologise

1

various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)

9

to ask; to enquire; to query

6

to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)

4

to give thought to; to bear in mind; to keep in mind

1

bachelorhood; spinsterhood; celibacy; living apart from one's family; living alone; person who lives alone

2

small scale

4

mouthful; morsel; gulp; sip; one word; in short

10

particularly; only; in the case of

1

is there anything else?

1

honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix

21

these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)

1

librarian

12

type of occupation; occupational category

1

to differ depending on ...

1

supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being

10

remuneration; recompense; reward; toll

4

expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming

7

volunteer

2

small salary; meagre salary; low pay

1

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

8

telephone number

3

to thank

9

to leave everything to (someone)

1

any- (e.g. anything, anywhere, anyone); -ever (e.g. whatever, wherever, whenever); even (if it's just ...); at least; either ... or ...

4

to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)

1

cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing

4

moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence

2

Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)

1

unnecessary; unneeded

2

to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize

4

contribution; donation

4

one's possessions; ownership

4

handwork; handcraft; manual labor; manual labour; working with one's hands

2

veil of darkness; curtain of night

1

curtain; hanging; bunting

1

to get a phone call

4

eight o'clock

4

to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip

2

awfully; terribly

2

to fall completely silent; to become still as death

4

(telephone) receiver

4

doubtful; questionable; uncertain; disputable; suspicious

1

to put in tune

1

matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

2