licence; license; permit; certificate (of qualification)
request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person
free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling
interception (email); wiretap; bug
to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape
indeterminate form; undefined; indefinite; unstructured
armchair theory; impracticable theory
abstract or impracticable theory
to fall into ruin; to be desolated
fifth day of the month; five days
Centaurus (constellation); the Centaur
to repaint; to paint again; to break (a record); to rewrite; to remake
future years; in (one's) later years
deeply impressive; memorable; striking
numerator; molecule; member; element
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
to drift (to); to be washed ashore
(the condition of) one's health
it is simply common courtesy to clean up after yourself; a bird does not foul the nest it is about to leave; on leaving a place one should see that all is in good order
proverb; saying; aphorism; maxim
long time; long interval; for quite some time
tightness (of money, financial conditions, etc.); pressure; stringency; being strained (of a situation); being tense; being pressing
arguing back and forth; bandying words; verbal tug-of-war
babysitting; babysitter; taking care of; assisting; assistant
sponsor; manager; go-between; mediator; agent; caretaker
passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy
all one's life; throughout one's life; as long as one lives
stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation
(dying of) natural causes
senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)
wide sense (e.g. of a word); broad sense