or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs
cut; reduction; curtailment
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
always; constantly; frequently; often; nonstop
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
last-minute cramming; overnight cramming; (vegetables) salted just overnight
marks; points; score; number of items; number of articles
nice; likeable; desirable
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
stand; rack; support; holder; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level)
cooking; food preparation
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2, etc.); ejection
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
restaurant (esp. Western-style)
to engage (with); to be in gear (with); to bite each other; to be on the same wavelength
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
ago; since; before; previous
beautification; glorification
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)