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{
"term": "participant",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person who is taking part in an activity or event",
"sensetop": "participant in something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The average age of **study participants** was 48 years."
},
{
"text": "workshop/conference/seminar participants"
},
{
"text": "He has been an **active participant** in the discussion.",
"contextForm": "participant in something"
},
{
"text": "The child must be a willing participant in the therapy."
},
{
"text": "Participants in the study completed a short questionnaire."
},
{
"text": "Participants were asked to choose one of four topics for the lunch sessions."
},
{
"text": "These sports are exciting for participants and spectators alike."
},
{
"text": "Online gaming attracts enthusiastic participants."
},
{
"text": "Participants ranged in age from 35 to 55."
},
{
"text": "Protests on Monday attracted thousands of participants."
},
{
"text": "She's a regular participant in the show."
},
{
"text": "He became a prominent participant in the space program."
},
{
"text": "He was a willing participant in the deception."
},
{
"text": "She was an unwilling participant in his downfall."
},
{
"text": "It was difficult to recruit participants for the study."
},
{
"text": "The research participants were all undergraduate students in their final year."
},
{
"text": "Of the survey participants, 39.2% were female and 60.8% were male."
},
{
"text": "The participants were asked to indicate their attitudes to science."
},
{
"text": "Enrolment will be limited to 35 participants."
},
{
"text": "Workshop participants are encouraged to share their ideas."
},
{
"text": "Most conference participants expressed their support for the idea."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full", "active", "passive"],
"verb + participant": ["attract", "select", "ask"],
"participant + verb": [
"attend something",
"experience something",
"describe something"
],
"preposition": ["participant in"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pɑːˈtɪsɪpənt/",
"audio": "pa/participant/participant__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pɑːrˈtɪsɪpənt/",
"audio": "pa/participant/participant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin participant-, literally ‘sharing in’, from the verb participare, based on pars, part- ‘part’ + capere ‘take’."
}