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{
"term": "nuisance",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a thing, person or situation that is annoying or causes trouble or problems",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't want to **be a nuisance** so tell me if you want to be alone."
},
{
"text": "I hope you're not **making a nuisance of yourself**."
},
{
"text": "**It's a nuisance** having to go back tomorrow."
},
{
"text": "What a nuisance!"
},
{
"text": "It's an awful nuisance having builders in the house all day."
},
{
"text": "This new system is nothing but a nuisance."
}
],
"topics": ["Personal qualities"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "real", "minor"],
"preposition": ["nuisance to"],
"phrases": ["make a nuisance of yourself"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "behaviour by somebody that annoys other people and that a court can order the person to stop",
"labels": "(law)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was charged with causing a public nuisance."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["great", "real", "minor"],
"preposition": ["nuisance to"],
"phrases": ["make a nuisance of yourself"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnjuːsns/",
"audio": "nu/nuisance/nuisance__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈnuːsns/",
"audio": "nu/nuisance/nuisance__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘injury, hurt’): from Old French, ‘hurt’, from the verb nuire, from Latin nocere ‘to harm’."
}