jpdb beta

to be a problem

1

management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons

3

theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor

1

incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person

1

treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay

1

to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)

2

uprooting; pulling up (a plant) by the roots; eradicating; rooting out; all (destroyed, stolen, etc.); completely

2

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

to serve as; to act as; to fill (the position of); to play the role of; to be in charge of; to hold (a position)

3

prospects of victory; chances of success

1

theme park

2

construction; establishment

1

funds; capital

1

acquisition; possession

3

laptop (computer); notebook (computer)

4

keyboard

1

implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization

2

truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance

3

person who died for a cause; guinea pig (for a new product or service); test subject; hitobashira; ritual human sacrifice by burying a living person under or near a large-scale construction project to invoke divine protection

1

obstruction; prevention; hindrance; check; blocking; stopping

1

right to decide; having say (in a decision)

1

to dart around (of one's eyes); to be shifty

4

biological parent; real parent

2

that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you

1

unwelcome favor; unwelcome favour; misplaced kindness

1

to satisfy the requirements

1

careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully

1

to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over

2

another company; other company

1

to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset

1

how things should be; the way something ought to be; ideal state; ideal form

1

bad feeling; cares; ill feeling; grudge; sense of discomfort; discontent

6

time; years

1

company management; managing a company

1

innermost secrets (of an art or skill); mysteries; essence; heart

1

deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing; one's work

1

gifted education; special education for gifted children

1

to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend

1

no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it

8

to teach thoroughly; to instill (into); to instil; to inculcate; to drum (into); to drill (into)

1

I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; thank you very much (for help, etc.)

1

venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on

1

to hear of; to learn of

1

cold; frigid; dignified; distinguished; (of an atmosphere) tense; nerve-racking

1

pleading; entreaty; supplication; petition

6

privacy; secrecy; confidentiality

1

please

2

end of an eyebrow

4

to be frank with you; to tell you the truth; I'm going to lay my cards on the table

7

to go upstream; to go up (a river); to go back (to the past or origin); to date back (to); to trace back (to)

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