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{
"term": "faculty",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a department or group of related departments in a college or university",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the Faculty of Law"
},
{
"text": "students who are doing degrees in the Arts Faculty"
},
{
"text": "the Faculty of Arts"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["Arts", "English", "law"],
"faculty + noun": ["member"],
"preposition": ["in a/the faculty", "faculty of"],
"phrases": [
"a member of the faculty",
"the dean of (the) faculty",
"the head of (the) faculty"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "all the teachers in a faculty of a college or university",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the Law School faculty"
},
{
"text": "a faculty meeting"
},
{
"text": "faculty members"
},
{
"text": "The faculty is/are meeting to discuss the issue."
},
{
"text": "Larger grants may ensure more funding for faculty development."
},
{
"text": "My faculty adviser made an effort to contact me."
},
{
"text": "a hearing before a faculty committee"
},
{
"text": "collaboration across faculties"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["college", "departmental", "university"],
"verb + faculty": ["hire", "recruit", "retain"],
"faculty + noun": ["appointment", "position", "development"],
"preposition": ["on the faculty", "faculty at", "faculty of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "all the teachers of a particular university or college",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "faculty members"
},
{
"text": "She joined the faculty of the University of Maryland."
},
{
"text": "the faculty at public institutions"
},
{
"text": "her colleagues on the faculty"
},
{
"text": "The degree of job security for tenured faculty is high relative to most other jobs."
},
{
"text": "Teachers are typically part-timers and adjunct faculty."
},
{
"text": "I was fortunate to receive a faculty appointment at Ohio State."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["college", "departmental", "university"],
"verb + faculty": ["hire", "recruit", "retain"],
"faculty + noun": ["appointment", "position", "development"],
"preposition": ["on the faculty", "faculty at", "faculty of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "any of the physical or mental abilities that a person is born with",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the faculty of sight"
},
{
"text": "She retained her mental faculties *(= the ability to think and understand)* until the day she died."
},
{
"text": "to be **in full possession of your faculties** *(= be able to speak, hear, see, understand, etc.)*"
},
{
"text": "intellectual/critical/artistic faculties"
},
{
"text": "He is not in full possession of all his mental faculties."
},
{
"text": "We try to develop the student's critical faculties."
},
{
"text": "the evolution of man's higher faculties"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["higher", "cognitive", "intellectual"],
"verb + faculty": ["be in possession of", "have", "lose"],
"preposition": ["faculty for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a particular ability for doing something",
"sensetop": "faculty of/for (doing) something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the faculty of understanding complex issues"
},
{
"text": "He had a faculty for seeing his own mistakes."
},
{
"text": "our faculty for picking up speech even in noisy environments"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["higher", "cognitive", "intellectual"],
"verb + faculty": ["be in possession of", "have", "lose"],
"preposition": ["faculty for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfæklti/",
"audio": "fa/faculty/faculty__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfæklti/",
"audio": "fa/faculty/faculty__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘make, do’."
}