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{
"term": "loyalty",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the quality of being constant in your support of somebody/something",
"sensetop": "loyalty to/towards somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can I count on your loyalty?"
},
{
"text": "They swore their loyalty to the king.",
"contextForm": "loyalty to/towards somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He inspires great loyalty from all his employees."
},
{
"text": "She stayed on at the school out of loyalty to her students."
},
{
"text": "He showed unswerving loyalty to his friends."
},
{
"text": "It was a blatant attempt to buy their loyalty."
},
{
"text": "The company expects loyalty from its employees."
},
{
"text": "The company rewards customer loyalty by offering discounts."
},
{
"text": "The team members felt tremendous loyalty towards one another."
},
{
"text": "The town is the object of fierce loyalty among its inhabitants."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "complete", "total"],
"verb + loyalty": ["command", "earn", "engender"],
"loyalty + verb": ["be", "lie", "remain"],
"loyalty + noun": ["oath", "test", "card"],
"preposition": ["out of loyalty", "loyalty among", "loyalty for"],
"phrases": [
"a conflict of loyalties",
"an oath of loyalty",
"a pledge of loyalty"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a strong feeling that you want to support and be loyal to somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a case of **divided loyalties** (= with strong feelings of support for two different causes, people, etc.)"
},
{
"text": "Her loyalties lay with people from the same background as herself."
},
{
"text": "His primary loyalty was to his family."
},
{
"text": "Some party members found it hard to switch their loyalty to the new leader."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "complete", "total"],
"verb + loyalty": ["command", "earn", "engender"],
"loyalty + verb": ["be", "lie", "remain"],
"loyalty + noun": ["oath", "test", "card"],
"preposition": ["out of loyalty", "loyalty among", "loyalty for"],
"phrases": [
"a conflict of loyalties",
"an oath of loyalty",
"a pledge of loyalty"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɔɪəlti/",
"audio": "lo/loyalty/loyalty__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɔɪəlti/",
"audio": "lo/loyalty/loyalty__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}