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{
"term": "academic",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "connected with education, especially studying in schools and universities",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "high/low academic standards"
},
{
"text": "She had a brilliant **academic career**."
},
{
"text": "one of this country's most prestigious **academic institutions**"
},
{
"text": "improving the **academic achievement** of all students"
},
{
"text": "The university is renowned throughout the world for its academic excellence."
},
{
"text": "academic research/researchers"
},
{
"text": "We are deeply committed to safeguarding **academic freedom**."
},
{
"text": "He retired from academic life and went into politics."
},
{
"text": "The academic year usually starts in September."
},
{
"text": "It is regarded as the top academic institution in the city."
},
{
"text": "This university will do all it can to defend academic freedom."
},
{
"text": "academic research"
},
{
"text": "The enrolment criteria are geographical rather than academic."
},
{
"text": "Our courses cover a range of academic disciplines."
}
],
"topics": ["Education", "Jobs"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "involving a lot of reading and studying rather than practical or technical skills",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a mixture of vocational and academic courses"
},
{
"text": "people whose skills are practical rather than academic"
},
{
"text": "academic qualifications/subjects"
},
{
"text": "We are looking for practical experience as well as academic achievement."
},
{
"text": "He had very few academic qualifications."
},
{
"text": "The writers' approach is not overly academic."
},
{
"text": "We need to combine academic and applied knowledge."
},
{
"text": "I wasn't sure I could cope with the academic demands of the course."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become"],
"adverb": ["merely", "purely", "strictly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "good at subjects involving a lot of reading and studying",
"cefr": "b1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She wasn't very academic and hated school."
}
],
"topics": ["Education", "Personal qualities"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "not connected to a real or practical situation and therefore not important",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's a **purely academic** question."
},
{
"text": "The whole thing's academic now—we can't win anyway."
},
{
"text": "Most of his questions were of an academic nature."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become"],
"adverb": ["merely", "purely", "strictly"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌækəˈdemɪk/",
"audio": "ac/academic/academic__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌækəˈdemɪk/",
"audio": "ac/academic/academic__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named."
}