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{
"term": "complete",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "including all the parts, etc. that are necessary; whole",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **complete list/sequence/picture/profile**"
},
{
"text": "I've collected the **complete set**."
},
{
"text": "a complete guide to events in Oxford"
},
{
"text": "the **complete works** of Shakespeare"
},
{
"text": "You will receive payment for each complete day that you work."
},
{
"text": "You've made my life complete."
},
{
"text": "A New Year celebration would not be complete without fireworks."
},
{
"text": "No trip to Edinburgh would be complete without a visit to the castle."
},
{
"text": "The book survives complete only in the second edition of 1533."
},
{
"text": "a remarkably complete account of the negotiations"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "survive"],
"adverb": ["remarkably", "very", "far from"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "finished",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The job is **almost complete**."
},
{
"text": "Ther ordering process is nearly complete."
},
{
"text": "Construction of the new airport is scheduled to be complete by late September."
},
{
"text": "Work on the office building will be complete at the end of the year."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem"],
"adverb": ["almost", "nearly", "substantially"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "used when you are emphasizing something, to mean ‘to the greatest degree possible’",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We were in complete agreement."
},
{
"text": "Refrigerators brought about a complete change in people's lifestyle."
},
{
"text": "They sat in complete silence."
},
{
"text": "He was a **complete stranger** to me."
},
{
"text": "The council's response shows a **complete lack** of understanding of the situation."
},
{
"text": "The army remains in **complete control** of the country."
},
{
"text": "It came as a complete surprise."
},
{
"text": "I felt a complete idiot."
},
{
"text": "You are talking **complete and utter** rubbish."
},
{
"text": "The whole thing has been a complete waste of time."
},
{
"text": "The film was a complete failure at the box office."
},
{
"text": "Their claims were widely believed despite a complete absence of evidence."
},
{
"text": "The whole procedure has become a complete farce."
},
{
"text": "The train came to a complete standstill."
},
{
"text": "The play was a complete disaster from beginning to end."
},
{
"text": "The accident caused the complete closure of the road."
},
{
"text": "It's a complete myth that he has royal blood."
},
{
"text": "He was in complete command of the situation."
},
{
"text": "After they had gone there was complete silence."
}
],
"synonyms": "total"
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "including something as an extra part or feature",
"sensetop": "complete with something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The furniture comes complete with tools and instructions for assembly."
},
{
"text": "The cruise ship is really a floating village, complete with shops, cafes and a doctor's surgery."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpliːt/",
"audio": "co/complete/complete__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəmˈpliːt/",
"audio": "co/complete/complete__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’."
}