orthopedics; plastic surgery; cosmetic surgery; smoothing (bursty traffic, etc.); shaping; fairing
ten-day period (in a month); ten-year period (in one's age); decade
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
unscrupulous sales practice involving expensive hard-to-break contracts
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
(corporate) restructuring; downsizing; laying off people
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
hostess bar; bar with female companions for male customers
suffix for familiar person
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
hospitalization; hospitalisation
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
foreign; abroad; overseas
slave trade; white-slave trade; human trafficking
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
just (now); quite (near); unintentionally; subconsciously
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
millions; several million; a few million
mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
huge win; overwhelming victory
thousands; several thousand
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten