entertainer; performer; celebrity; entertainment personality
university graduate; having graduated from university
to install (a king, emperor, etc.); to appoint (to a post); to promote; to assign (to study under)
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over
third year of high school; third-year high-school student
making a person, pet, etc. wait (before being permitted to do something); postponement; putting on hold
hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)
area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) line
majority group (party, faction)
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
the sciences; STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
self-education; self-instruction; self-study
faculty of engineering; school of engineering; college of engineering; department of engineering
professor; teaching; instruction
to receive favor; to receive assistance; to receive help; to be looked after; to be taken care of; to become dependent (on)
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
front and rear; before and after; order; sequence; consequences; context
to overhear; to hear (secondhand); to hear on the grapevine; to know by hearsay
yes; sure; gotcha; sycophantically; servilely; fawningly
Swiss roll; jelly roll; roll cake
to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become disgusted with
employment screening; employment selection (for job applicants)
application form (esp. a job application)
first-round interview; first-stage interview
department of economics; faculty of economics
finance; financing; credit transacting; monetary; financial; credit
brokerage; brokerage firm; broking house; securities company
document screening; paper screening; narrowing down a field of applicants based on resumes, written applications, etc.
to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down; to reject; to eliminate; to refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to flip
faint hopes; dim prospects; little hope; unlikely (to be successful)
ill-preparedness; insufficient preparation; lack of preparation
(instruction) manual; operations manual; basic rules (pertaining to how a job should be carried out); (car with) manual transmission
familiar; well-known; regular (e.g. customer); old acquaintance; old friend; (a) regular
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
branch office; branch store
all that one has; all that there is; the whole