word-vault/dist/data/cards/en/endorse.json

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{
    "term": "endorse",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "endorse",
            "heSheIt": "endorses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "endorsed",
        "pastParticiple": "endorsed",
        "ingForm": "endorsing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to say publicly that you support a person, statement or course of action",
            "sensetop": "endorse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Members of all parties endorsed a ban on land mines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has broadly endorsed the research paper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The newspaper has formally endorsed the Democratic candidate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["enthusiastically", "heartily", "strongly"],
                "verb + endorse": ["fail to", "refuse to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to say in an advertisement that you use and like a particular product so that other people will want to buy it",
            "sensetop": "endorse something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I wonder how many celebrities actually use the products they endorse."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to put details of a driving offence on somebody’s driving record",
            "sensetop": "have something/be endorsed",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You risk having your licence endorsed.",
                    "contextForm": "have something/be endorsed"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to write your name on the back of a cheque so that it can be paid into a bank account",
            "sensetop": "endorse something",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːs/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorse__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːsɪz/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːst/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorsed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorsing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːrs/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorse__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːrsɪz/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːrst/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorsed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdɔːrsɪŋ/",
                "audio": "en/endorse/endorsing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘write on the back of’; formerly also as indorse): from medieval Latin indorsare, from Latin in- ‘in, on’ + dorsum ‘back’."
}