word-vault/dist/data/cards/do/document.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "document",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an official paper, book or electronic file that gives information about something, or that can be used as evidence or proof of something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Please read and **sign** the attached **document**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please e-sign the document and email it back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is an important legal document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The child is identified only by the initial ‘M’ in **court documents**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Keep your passport and other **travel documents** in a secure place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "According to **documents released** yesterday, he was paid over £1 million last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to publish/produce a document"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Copies of the relevant documents must be filed at court."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to table/submit a document"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **leaked/forged document**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **classified/confidential/secret document**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **consultation/policy document**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A document signed abroad is as legally binding as one signed at home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was the biggest leak of classified documents in American history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She admitted filing false tax documents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He plans to submit the document as legal evidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A draft budget document was tabled."
                },
                {
                    "text": "According to leaked cabinet documents, no compensation would be paid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One of the documents leaked to the press was a memorandum written by the head of the security police."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Documents obtained by this newspaper purport to reveal that radioactive waste is being illegally dumped on the site."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Documents will be available at the news conference."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Existing paper documents could be scanned into a computer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Go through the document checking for errors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has promised to post a formal offer document to shareholders by Monday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She particularly criticized the terminology in the document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was trying to destroy documents that testified to his guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was unable to produce the document that she claimed would prove her case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her journal is an important document of 19th-century rural life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to search through 4 000 documents to find the information I needed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No other genuine document exists."
                },
                {
                    "text": "All parties must read and sign a written document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please sign the enclosed document and return it to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Supporting documents must be submitted to the supervisory authority."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The 1840 treaty is widely regarded as New Zealand's founding document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Department issued a consultation document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The conference adopted a document on minority rights."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document is dated 775."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document is written in Chinese."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document says they are against tax rebates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has produced an important new policy document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The original document has been lost or destroyed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The relevant documents are enclosed for your information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a disclaimer throughout the official documents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is little reason to doubt the authenticity of this document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This statement must be understood in the context of the entire document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a car's registration document"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a consultative document issued by the Department of Trade and Industry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a document agreed with the District Council"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a document calling for a ceasefire"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a document concerning arbitration procedures in Cairo"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a document entitled ‘Guidelines for Good Practice’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a document of 1999"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a government document on education policy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a working document in the discussions for a final treaty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "details of internal UN documents"
                },
                {
                    "text": "documents aimed at stimulating discussion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "documents covering various points of concern"
                },
                {
                    "text": "documents dating back to the 1920s"
                },
                {
                    "text": "documents leaked from the government to the press"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the key documents in this case"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A lawyer will have to draw up the document for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A top secret government document was leaked to the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Remember that this is a legally binding document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several important official documents are missing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee presented a discussion document at yesterday's meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The document was agreed by the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The draft version of the document contained several errors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have produced a new policy document."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["important", "key", "relevant"],
                "… of document": ["copy"],
                "verb + document": ["draft", "draw up", "prepare"],
                "document + verb": [
                    "concern something",
                    "deal with something",
                    "focus on something"
                ],
                "preposition": [
                    "according to a/​the document",
                    "in a/​the document",
                    "throughout a/​the document"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "a draft of a document",
                    "a version of a document",
                    "the authenticity of a document"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a computer file that contains text that has a name that identifies it",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Save the document before closing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Click here to print your document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a way to create and edit documents from a mobile device"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an XML/a PDF document"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cut and paste is used to move text to a new place in the document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This makes sharing documents, spreadsheets, and slideshows easy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What happens if three people decide to edit the same document at the same time?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Encryption systems protect sensitive documents stored in the cloud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Just upload your documents to the cloud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Highlight a passage in the active document and click on the print icon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I saved my work and opened a new document."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scroll through the document using the scroll bar."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Scroll through the document using the slider bar on the right of the window."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Send and receive documents at the click of a button."
                },
                {
                    "text": "To create a new document, select New from the File menu."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to display documents on screen"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a software tool for searching documents and retrieving information"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["electronic", "printed", "HTML"],
                "verb + document": ["close", "open", "display"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the document"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɒkjumənt/",
                "audio": "do/document/document__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdɑːkjumənt/",
                "audio": "do/document/document__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin documentum ‘lesson, proof’ (in medieval Latin ‘written instruction, official paper’), from docere ‘teach’."
}