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{
"term": "assembly",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a group of people who have been elected to meet together regularly and make decisions or laws for a particular region or country",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**state/legislative/federal/local assemblies**"
},
{
"text": "Power has been handed over to provincial and regional assemblies."
},
{
"text": "The national assembly has voted to adopt the budget."
},
{
"text": "the California Assembly"
},
{
"text": "the UN General Assembly"
},
{
"text": "assembly elections"
},
{
"text": "an elected assembly"
},
{
"text": "South Korea voted for its National Assembly this week."
},
{
"text": "The assembly voted to delay the legislation to allow further consultation to take place."
},
{
"text": "These issues have been discussed in the local assemblies."
},
{
"text": "The party has only 3 seats in the 51-seat National Assembly."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["elected", "representative", "constitutional"],
"verb + assembly": ["create", "form", "set up"],
"assembly + verb": ["meet", "vote"],
"assembly + noun": ["member", "seat", "building"],
"preposition": ["in an/the assembly"],
"phrases": ["a meeting of the assembly", "a session of the assembly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the meeting together of a group of people for a particular purpose; a group of people who meet together for a particular purpose",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were fighting for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly."
},
{
"text": "He was to address a public assembly on the issue."
},
{
"text": "an **assembly point** *(= a place where people have been asked to meet)*"
},
{
"text": "They demanded the right to hold peaceful assemblies."
},
{
"text": "When the fire alarm sounds, leave the building and proceed to your assembly point."
},
{
"text": "Laws governing freedom of assembly were gradually being relaxed."
},
{
"text": "Workers rushed to their designated assembly points."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["public", "peaceful", "unlawful"],
"verb + assembly": ["hold", "call"],
"assembly + noun": ["point"],
"phrases": ["freedom of assembly", "the right of assembly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a meeting of the teachers and students in a school, usually at the start of the day, to give information, discuss school events or say prayers together",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The deputy head was taking *(= leading)* school assembly that day."
},
{
"text": "The announcement was made during morning assembly."
},
{
"text": "We hold an assembly every morning."
},
{
"text": "I'm playing the flute in assembly tomorrow morning."
},
{
"text": "There is a whole school assembly every Friday morning."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["school", "morning"],
"verb + assembly": ["have", "hold", "attend"],
"assembly + noun": ["hall"],
"preposition": ["at assembly", "during assembly", "in assembly"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the process of putting together the parts of something such as a vehicle or piece of furniture",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Putting the bookcase together should be a simple assembly job."
},
{
"text": "a car assembly plant"
},
{
"text": "the correct assembly of the parts"
},
{
"text": "Some assembly is required."
},
{
"text": "The company has twenty assembly plants in Europe."
},
{
"text": "This factory deals with final assembly and testing."
},
{
"text": "furniture designed for home assembly"
},
{
"text": "Some assembly of the equipment is required."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["easy", "final"],
"verb + assembly": ["require"],
"assembly + noun": ["line", "area", "plant"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsembli/",
"audio": "as/assembly/assembly__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈsembli/",
"audio": "as/assembly/assembly__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French asemblee, feminine past participle of asembler, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ + simul ‘together’."
}