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{
"term": "persistent",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "determined to do something despite difficulties, especially when other people are against you and think that you are being annoying or unreasonable",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "How do you deal with persistent salesmen who won't take no for an answer?"
},
{
"text": "a **persistent offender** *(= a person who continues to commit crimes after they have been caught and punished)*"
},
{
"text": "She can be very persistent when she wants something."
},
{
"text": "Beware of these people's persistent sales techniques."
},
{
"text": "He introduced a plan for dealing with persistent offenders."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "incredibly", "really"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "continuing for a long period of time, or repeated frequently, especially in a way that is annoying and cannot be stopped",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Persistent heavy rain held up work on the bridge for more than a week."
},
{
"text": "The most common symptom is a persistent cough."
},
{
"text": "I can’t take much more of this persistent criticism."
},
{
"text": "He resigned over persistent rumours of his affair with an actress."
},
{
"text": "Famine is a persistent problem in many parts of the world."
},
{
"text": "The weeds were very persistent."
},
{
"text": "a stubbornly persistent unemployment problem"
},
{
"text": "Conflict is a common and persistent feature of society."
},
{
"text": "Ear problems that are particularly painful or persistent should always be checked."
},
{
"text": "He resigned over persistent rumours of his part in the scandal."
},
{
"text": "Persistent pressure from the water authority forced the company to comply with the rules."
},
{
"text": "Poor maths teaching was a persistent problem in schools."
},
{
"text": "The problem of persistent shortages of food was turning into a crisis."
},
{
"text": "There is a persistent tendency for wage costs to continue to rise."
},
{
"text": "There were persistent reports of gross human rights abuses."
}
],
"synonyms": "unrelenting",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "incredibly", "really"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pəˈsɪstənt/",
"audio": "pe/persistent/persistent__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/pərˈsɪstənt/",
"audio": "pe/persistent/persistent__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}