Meanings

full-time trade union official

to go by the rules

to follow custom

to follow the crowd

meter rate

civil disobedience movement

subordinate clause

as before

number of employees

load-following operation (e.g. of a power plant)

employee stock owners

a woman's three obediences (father, husband and son; according to Buddhist and Confucianist teachings)

metered billing system

illegally moonlighting (of a union employee)

samurai acting as an attendant

familiar spirit

Gunsho Ruiju (collection of Japanese classics sorted by type; orig. ed. 1819; comp. ed. 1911)

Book of Serenity (12th century collection of koans, compiled by Chinese monk Hongzhi Zhengjue)

part time employee

full-time employee