Vocabulary

overseas assignment; overseas posting

it's better to be rough and ready than slow and elaborate

Doolittle raid

police radio

hotelier; hotelkeeper; hotel manager

Swedish gymnastics

country code top-level domain; ccTLD

day on which a park (or kindergarten, zoo, etc.) is closed

to commit a crime

end credits (of a film, TV show, etc.); closing credits

to be engaged in two trades at the same time; to have two irons in the fire; to wear two pairs of straw sandals

standing while holding onto something (of an infant or toddler)

sharp (tongue, criticism, etc.); cutting; scathing

Panama disease (type of Fusarium wilt that affects bananas)

Fusarium wilt

Cavendish (banana)

Eumycetes; true fungi

cryptosporidiosis

company employee working full-time as a union official

full-time trade union official

social philosophy

third-wave coffee (21st century movement to produce high-quality coffee)

period of poor employment opportunities; job drought; employment ice age

property tax; estate tax

to be itching to do something

otherwise; or else; if not

glaciology

cannon containing a recoil system

haori coat decorated with one's family crest

haori coat decorated with one's family crest and hakama (Japanese male formal attire)

hand-tossed (e.g. pizza)

pan pizza

delivery pizza; home-delivered pizza

Miranda warning

remaining number; remainder

zoetrope (animation device)

zoetrope (animation device)

having a habit of stealing things; being light-fingered

photo sticker

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