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{
"term": "hearing",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the ability to hear",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her hearing is poor."
},
{
"text": "The explosion damaged his hearing."
},
{
"text": "She starting to lose her hearing."
},
{
"text": "**hearing loss**"
},
{
"text": "His hearing began to deteriorate."
},
{
"text": "Is there any chance that he'll get his hearing back?"
},
{
"text": "She lost her hearing when she was a child."
},
{
"text": "Two months after the accident her hearing came back."
},
{
"text": "Whales have acute hearing."
},
{
"text": "a course in sign language for both deaf and hearing people"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["acute", "excellent", "good"],
"verb + hearing": ["have", "lose", "get back"],
"hearing + verb": ["deteriorate", "go", "come back"],
"hearing + noun": ["impairment", "loss", "problems"],
"phrases": ["hard of hearing"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an official meeting at which the facts about a crime, complaint, etc. are presented to the person or group of people who will have to decide what action to take",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(especially US English)(especially North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **court/disciplinary hearing**"
},
{
"text": "An appeal hearing is scheduled for later this month."
},
{
"text": "to **hold/attend/adjourn a hearing**"
},
{
"text": "At a preliminary hearing the judge announced that the trial would begin on March 21."
},
{
"text": "Protesters are calling for a public hearing."
},
{
"text": "She was granted a divorce in a five-minute hearing."
},
{
"text": "The committee has decided to hold the hearing in public."
},
{
"text": "The hearing was told that the child had been left with a 14-year-old babysitter."
},
{
"text": "The judge dismissed the case without a hearing."
}
],
"topics": ["Law and justice"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["final", "preliminary", "fair"],
"verb + hearing": ["conduct", "hold", "schedule"],
"hearing + verb": ["take place", "begin", "open"],
"preposition": [
"at a/the hearing",
"in a/the hearing",
"pending a/the hearing"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "an opportunity to explain your actions, ideas or opinions",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to get/give somebody **a fair hearing**"
},
{
"text": "His views may be unfashionable but he deserves a hearing."
},
{
"text": "At least give our ideas a fair hearing before you reject them."
},
{
"text": "You haven't got much chance of your plan getting a sympathetic hearing."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["fair", "sympathetic"],
"verb + hearing": ["give somebody/something", "get", "deserve"],
"preposition": ["hearing for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "near enough to somebody so that they can hear what is said",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She shouldn't have said such things in your hearing."
},
{
"text": "For God's sake, don't mention it in her hearing."
},
{
"text": "I had no reason to believe there was anyone within hearing."
}
],
"synonyms": "earshot"
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "too far away to hear somebody/something or to be heard",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She had moved out of hearing."
},
{
"text": "We were just out of the captain's hearing."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "he/hearing/hearing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɪrɪŋ/",
"audio": "he/hearing/hearing__us_3.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}