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{
"term": "flexible",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "able to change to suit new conditions or situations",
"sensetop": "flexible about something",
"labels": "(approving)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a more **flexible approach**"
},
{
"text": "**flexible working** hours/practices"
},
{
"text": "Our plans need to be flexible enough to cater for the needs of everyone."
},
{
"text": "You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach."
},
{
"text": "Can you be flexible about when you take your leave?",
"contextForm": "flexible about something"
},
{
"text": "My mother is fairly flexible about what time I need to be home."
},
{
"text": "We need to make the working day more flexible."
},
{
"text": "A First National Bank loan is an extremely flexible facility."
},
{
"text": "What is needed is a more flexible design."
},
{
"text": "We can offer you flexible working hours."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"phrases": ["about"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "able to bend easily without breaking",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "flexible plastic tubing"
},
{
"text": "a fitness program that keeps joints flexible and mobile"
}
],
"topics": ["Physics and chemistry"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfleksəbl/",
"audio": "fl/flexible/flexible__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfleksəbl/",
"audio": "fl/flexible/flexible__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin flexibilis, from flectere ‘to bend’."
}