約束【やくそく】
promise, agreement, arrangement, one's word, contract, pact, appointment, engagement, date, convention, rule, destiny, fate
拘束【こうそく】
restriction, restraint, binding, constraint
結束【けっそく】
union, unity, solidarity, bundling, binding, tying, putting on (clothes, armour, etc.)
花束【はなたば】
bunch of flowers, bouquet
札束【さつたば】
roll of banknotes
装束【しょうぞく】
costume, dress, attire
約束手形【やくそくてがた】
promissory note
束縛【そくばく】
restraint, restriction, fetters, yoke, shackles, binding, confinement with rope
収束【しゅうそく】
conclusion, resolution, firming up (plans, etc.), coming together, returning to normal, gathering and bundling, convergence, focusing (e.g. light), convergence
口約束【くちやくそく】
verbal promise, one's word
束ね【たばね】
bundle, control, management
束ねる【たばねる】
to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters), to bundle, to sheathe, to govern, to manage, to control, to administer, to fold (one's arms), to put together (one's hands)
拘束時間【こうそくじかん】
total hours spent working
白装束【しろしょうぞく】
white clothing
束【たば】
bundle, bunch, sheaf
束【つか】
strut, short vertical post, thickness (of a book minus the cover, a sheaf of paper, etc.), handbreadth, bundle
束【そく】
lattice, counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish), handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows)
