to use a calculator; to calculate cost-benefit; to calculate profitability
to favor; to favour; to show favor to; to show favour to; to be partial to; to be a regular customer of
notebook; account book; register
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted; tenths reduced
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
to inlay; to set; to stud (e.g. star-studded sky); to enchase (something) with; to mount (gems)
corporate acquisition (buyout)
area of expertise; (one's) field; (one's) line
good outward appearance; looking nice; being attractive; making a fine show
home page; horsepower; HP; half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding); HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game)
standing together in a disorderly fashion; standing close around; crowding together; flooding in (applicants, election candidates, etc.)
release (e.g. information); disclosure (legal); show; indication; display
many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; (lit.) even dust becomes a mountain if piled together
insatiable; untiring; persistent
feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
mass-market newspaper; tabloid newspaper
competition rate; success rate; ratio of successful (applicants) to total applicants
subcontract; subcontractor (person or company)
decline; degeneration; decay; waning; ebbing
paper medium; print medium (as opposed to other media)
to continue to hold; to hold on to (for a long period); to maintain; to keep
term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology
economical; economy size; family size (esp. of packaged food)
to appear on the market; to be in season (e.g. fruit); to circulate widely; to make the rounds; to go around
leaving a device on (e.g. TV, air conditioner); leaving something engaged (e.g. a key in a lock)
purchase; buying; buying used articles as a company; trade-in; purchase on a no-return policy; lump-sum payment
different suitabilities; being cut out for certain things (and not for others)
currently away from my seat (keyboard, etc.); AFK
to live up to (one's) expectations; to meet expectations
large amount of money; great cost
pawn (chess piece); boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); flipping through the air; tossing
mail clerk; post-office clerk; post-office worker; postal employee; postal worker