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{
"term": "innovation",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something",
"sensetop": "innovation in something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an age of technological innovation"
},
{
"text": "The company is very interested in product design and innovation."
},
{
"text": "Too strict a regulatory system will stifle innovation."
},
{
"text": "innovation in engineering",
"contextForm": "innovation in something"
},
{
"text": "Technical innovation may occur directly in the factory."
},
{
"text": "industries where constant product innovation is a criterion for survival"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["constant", "continuous", "successful"],
"verb + innovation": ["accelerate", "encourage", "facilitate"],
"innovation + verb": ["happen", "occur"],
"innovation + noun": ["process"],
"preposition": ["innovation in"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a new idea, way of doing something, etc. that has been introduced or discovered",
"sensetop": "innovation in something",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "technological innovations designed to save energy"
},
{
"text": "recent innovations in steel-making technology",
"contextForm": "innovation in something"
},
{
"text": "Many innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act."
},
{
"text": "She believed she had come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times."
},
{
"text": "innovations in machinery and instruments"
},
{
"text": "Mathematical astronomy was the great innovation by the Greeks of the 5th century BC."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "important", "major"],
"verb + innovation": ["come up with", "introduce", "design"],
"innovation + verb": ["occur"],
"preposition": ["innovation in"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃn/",
"audio": "in/innovation/innovation__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃn/",
"audio": "in/innovation/innovation__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin innovatio(n-), from the verb innovare, from in- ‘into’ + novare ‘make new’ (from novus ‘new’)."
}