My words

起業

きぎょう

starting a business, promotion of enterprise

業界

ぎょうかい

business world, business circles, (the) industry

被害

ひがい

(suffering) damage, injury, harm

状況

じょうきょう

state of affairs (around you), situation, circumstances

起爆剤

きばくざい

triggering explosive

期待

きたい

expectation, anticipation, hope

課題

かだい

subject, theme, issue, matter, homework, assignment, task, challenge, problem, question

解決

かいけつ

settlement, solution, resolution

実名

じつめい

real name

夫婦間

ふうふかん

within a marriage, between husband and wife, conjugal

悪化

あっか

(suffer) deterioration, growing worse, aggravation, degeneration, corruption

実態

じったい

true state, actual condition, reality

主流

しゅりゅう

mainstream, commonplace, main course (of a river), main stream

軽視

けいし

making light of, slight, ignore, neglect, contempt, disdain

展開

てんかい

development, evolution, progressing, unfolding, expansion, spreading out, extending, deployment, building up, expansion

起業家

きぎょうか

entrepreneur, person who starts a new business

革新的

かくしんてき

innovative, liberal, reformist, progressive

短期間

たんきかん

short term, short time

金融機関

きんゆうきかん

financial institutions, banking facilities

投資家

とうしか

investor

調達

ちょうたつ

supply, provision, raising

一般的

いっぱんてき

popular, typical, general

耳を疑う

みみをうたがう

to not believe one's ears

性的

せいてき

(relating to) gender, sex, sexual

見返り

みかえり

collateral, reward, compensation, security, quid pro quo

断る

ことわる

to refuse, to reject, to dismiss, to turn down, to decline, to inform, to give notice, to tell in advance, to ask leave, to excuse oneself (from)

対価

たいか

compensation, equivalent value, consideration

要求

ようきゅう

demand, firm request, requisition, requirement, desire

貶める

おとしめる

to show contempt for, to look down upon, to have a low opinion of, to cause to fall, to make decline

自愛

じあい

taking care of oneself (esp. used as an epistolary imperative), self-love