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{ "term": "choice", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "a2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "an act of choosing between two or more possibilities; something that you can choose", "sensetop": "choice between A and B", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "We are faced with a difficult choice." }, { "text": "Many people will be forced to **make a choice** between heating and eating this winter.", "contextForm": "choice between A and B" }, { "text": "We aim to help students make more informed career choices." }, { "text": "I am sure you have made the **right choice**." }, { "text": "Resources are finite, and choices have to be made between competing priorities and needs." }, { "text": "There is a wide range of choices open to you." }, { "text": "Doctors have to make moral choices every day of their lives." }, { "text": "These are personal choices that people must make for themselves." }, { "text": "I now had a clear choice: either I accept their terms or I leave." }, { "text": "In the end, the choice was quite easy." }, { "text": "She faced the stark choice of backing the new plan or losing her job." }, { "text": "When did you make a conscious choice to become an artist?" }, { "text": "Your needs should dictate your choice." }, { "text": "a careful choice of words" }, { "text": "a limited range of choices available to buyers" }, { "text": "a range of available choices" }, { "text": "to make choices about their future" }, { "text": "Leaders must make good decisions and tough choices." }, { "text": "He wondered whether he had made the right choice." }, { "text": "Nutrition factors are driving consumer choices." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["careful", "good", "informed"], "verb + choice": ["make", "be faced with", "face"], "preposition": ["by choice", "from choice", "out of choice"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the right to choose; the possibility of choosing", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "If I had the choice, I would stop working tomorrow." }, { "text": "He **had no choice** but to leave *(= this was the only thing he could do)*." }, { "text": "She's going to do it. She doesn't have **much choice**, really, does she?" }, { "text": "This government is committed to extending parental choice in education." }, { "text": "After a delicious meal, the choice is yours: the late night disco or a stroll along the beach beneath a starry sky." }, { "text": "Sandy had to tell his tale in halting Italian. Since Franco spoke no English, he had no choice in the matter." }, { "text": "He had no choice about that." }, { "text": "I had no choice but to cancel my holiday." }, { "text": "The way he behaved meant that we had no choice in the matter." }, { "text": "We gave her the choice, and she decided she'd like a bike for her birthday." }, { "text": "Everyone in a democracy has the right to exercise choice." }, { "text": "Your decision leaves me with no choice but to resign." }, { "text": "You can have first choice of all the rooms." }, { "text": "to extend parental choice as to which schools children should attend" }, { "text": "People still have a choice about where to live." }, { "text": "I believe in freedom of choice." }, { "text": "They were left with no choice but to trust her." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["clear", "free", "first"], "verb + choice": ["have", "exercise", "give somebody"], "preposition": ["choice about", "choice as to", "choice between"], "phrases": [ "freedom of choice", "have little choice but to do something", "have no choice but to do something" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "a person or thing that is chosen", "sensetop": "choice for somethingchoice as somethingchoice of something", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "This colour wasn't my **first choice**." }, { "text": "She's the obvious choice for the job.", "contextForm": "choice for something" }, { "text": "Hawaii remains a popular choice for winter vacation travel." }, { "text": "She wouldn't be my choice as manager.", "contextForm": "choice as something" }, { "text": "I don’t like his choice of friends *(= the people he chooses as his friends)*.", "contextForm": "choice of something" }, { "text": "I think she's a very good choice for captain." }, { "text": "It was a happy choice of venue" }, { "text": "Maria defended her choice of name for the child." }, { "text": "Mary is a popular choice as chair of the committee." }, { "text": "Much ill health is the result of poor diet and lifestyle choices." }, { "text": "Our first choice for a holiday is the north of Scotland." }, { "text": "Our first choice for a site was already taken." }, { "text": "People were asked about their top choices for meeting locations." }, { "text": "She questioned the choice of Murphy for this role." }, { "text": "She was starting to regret her choice." }, { "text": "The hotel is the preferred choice for business people." }, { "text": "Bill is the obvious choice for captain of the team." }, { "text": "I don't think much of her choice of outfit." }, { "text": "The restaurant is a good choice for a night out." }, { "text": "He seems an odd choice for this sort of work." } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["excellent", "good", "happy"], "verb + choice": ["regret", "defend", "justify"], "preposition": ["choice as", "choice for", "choice of"] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "the number or range of different things from which to choose", "cefr": "a2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The menu has a good choice of desserts." }, { "text": "There wasn't **much choice** of colour." }, { "text": "I can't decide. There's too much choice." }, { "text": "The shop has a very limited choice of ties." }, { "text": "We offer a choice of ten different destinations." }, { "text": "The curtains come in a choice of twelve different colours." }, { "text": "Do supermarkets offer consumers too much choice?" } ], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["good", "wide", "limited"], "verb + choice": ["have", "offer", "limit"], "choice + verb": ["be available (to somebody)", "be open to somebody"], "preposition": ["choice of"], "phrases": ["be spoilt for choice"] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to have such a lot of things to choose from that it is very difficult to make a decision", "labels": "(British English)", "examples": [], "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "because you have chosen", "examples": [ { "text": "I wouldn't go there by choice." }, { "text": "I wouldn't have come to this cafe by choice!" } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "that is chosen by a particular group of people or for a particular purpose", "examples": [ { "text": "It's the software of choice for business use." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "that you choose yourself", "examples": [ { "text": "First prize will be a meal for two at the restaurant of your choice." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used for saying that there is very little difference between two or more things that you can choose", "labels": "(informal, especially British English)", "examples": [] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/tʃɔɪs/", "audio": "ch/choice/choice__gb_2.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/tʃɔɪs/", "audio": "ch/choice/choice__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French chois, from choisir ‘choose’, of Germanic origin and related to choose." }