to depend, to be based on

(one's) station, post / department, bureau

vanishing, disappearance, removal, erasure

(intransitive) to vanish, to disappear / (transitive) to make something vanish or disappear, to remove, to erase

a deficiency

to lack, to want

preface by the author / prefacing one's book

A transliteration of the English male given name George

base, headquarters

A transliteration of the English male given name Joe