jpdb beta

patronage; protection

1

flexible; lithe; soft; pliable

1

supreme ruler; conqueror; champion; winner; titleholder

1

tremendous; immense

2

to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate

4

together with ...

1

downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction

2

first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address

1

contract; compact; agreement

2

to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize

1

performance (of a duty); fulfillment (of a promise); fulfilment; execution (of a contract); discharge; implementation

1

share (of expenses); equity (in company); holdings; interest (in company)

1

adding up; totalling; totaling

1

share (in a company); stock

1

one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start

1

percent; percentage

1

biggest shareholder; largest stockholder

1

trading company

1

selection; choice; option

3

representative director; managing director; president; someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company in its dealings with the outside world

1

at the same time; concurrently; simultaneously; coinciding (with)

1

outward appearance; ostensible; public; official

1

both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold

3

hostile relations; hostile relationship

1

price; cost; value; worth; value

1

competition

1

existing (between); interposition; intervention; involvement

2

healthy; sound; wholesome

1

competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)

1

cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky

1

severe; hard

1

purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

4

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)

1

to overdo; to go too far; to go to excess

1

to occur; to happen

1

extreme; radical

2

sad; wretched; deplorable

1

both; (not) either

2

rapid growth

1

to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with

2

structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern

1

stability; steadiness; equilibrium

1

field; sphere; realm; division; branch

1

subdivision; segmentation; fractionalization; fragmentation

1

(social) class; rank; grade

1

to become settled; to be fixed

1

just now; at this moment; at this point of time

1

emergency demands; special procurement (particularly in time of war)

1

to be moist; to be damp; to profit by; to receive benefits; to become rich; to become at ease financially

1

commercial spirit

1