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{ "term": "press", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b1", "image": "data/images/ki/kitchen_crushing_grating_squeezing.png", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "newspapers and magazines", "sensetop": "in the press", "cefr": "b1", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "the **local/national/foreign press**" }, { "text": "the **popular/tabloid press** *(= newspapers with a lot of pictures and stories about famous people)*" }, { "text": "the **music/sporting press** *(= newspapers and magazines about music/sport)*" }, { "text": "The **mainstream press** is/are ignoring this story." }, { "text": "Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale." }, { "text": "The case has been widely **reported in the press**.", "contextForm": "in the press" }, { "text": "the **freedom of the Press/press freedom** *(= the freedom to report any events and express opinions)*" }, { "text": "The event is bound to attract wide **press coverage** *(= it will be written about in many newspapers)*." }, { "text": "According to French **press reports**, three people have been killed." }, { "text": "a White House **press briefing**" }, { "text": "He issued a press statement insisting on his innocence." }, { "text": "The right-wing press mostly backed the government." }, { "text": "There was no mention of the incident in the national press." }, { "text": "She is constantly being attacked by the press." } ], "topics": ["TV, radio and news"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"], "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"], "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"], "preposition": ["in the press"], "phrases": [ "get a good, bad, etc. press", "get good, bad, etc. press", "have a good, bad, etc. press" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the journalists and photographers who work for newspapers and magazines", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "The Press was/were not allowed to attend the trial." }, { "text": "She has been harassed by the press, who desperately need a story." }, { "text": "He **told the press** that there had been ‘further progress’." }, { "text": "She told them not to **talk to the press**." }, { "text": "Did the senator deliberately mislead the press?" }, { "text": "She showed the doorman her press pass." }, { "text": "Someone must have alerted the press that she was going to be there." }, { "text": "The president was briefed before meeting the press." }, { "text": "They introduced measures including muzzling the press and illegal detainment." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"], "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"], "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"], "preposition": ["in the press"], "phrases": [ "get a good, bad, etc. press", "get good, bad, etc. press", "have a good, bad, etc. press" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "the type or amount of reports that newspapers write about somebody/something", "examples": [ { "text": "The airline has **had a bad press** recently *(= journalists have written unpleasant things about it)*." }, { "text": "The demonstration got very little press." }, { "text": "His latest novel **didn't get (a) very good press** *(= was not praised in the media)*." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"], "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"], "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"], "preposition": ["in the press"], "phrases": [ "get a good, bad, etc. press", "get good, bad, etc. press", "have a good, bad, etc. press" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "a machine for printing books, newspapers, etc.; the process of printing them", "examples": [ { "text": "We were able to watch the books rolling off the presses." }, { "text": "These prices are correct at the time of **going to press**." }, { "text": "a story that is **hot off the press** *(= has just appeared in the newspapers)*" }, { "text": "The newspaper goes to press at 6 o'clock." }, { "text": "The presses are already rolling." }, { "text": "Their new book is in press." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["printing"], "verb + press": ["go to"], "press + verb": ["roll"], "preposition": ["in press"], "phrases": [ "hot off the press", "hot off the presses", "stop the press" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 5, "definition": "a business that prints and publishes books", "examples": [ { "text": "Oxford University Press" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 6, "definition": "a piece of equipment that is used for creating pressure on things, to make them flat or to get liquid from them", "examples": [ { "text": "a trouser press" }, { "text": "an olive press" } ] }, { "senseNumber": 7, "definition": "an act of pushing something with your hand or with a tool that you are holding", "examples": [ { "text": "He gave the bell another press." }, { "text": "Those shirts need a press *(= with an iron)*." } ] }, { "senseNumber": 8, "definition": "a large number of people or things competing for space or movement", "examples": [ { "text": "the press of bodies all moving the same way" }, { "text": "Among the press of cars he glimpsed a taxi." } ], "synonyms": "throng" }, { "senseNumber": 9, "definition": "a large cupboard, usually with shelves, for holding clothes, books, etc.", "labels": "(Irish English, Scottish English)", "examples": [] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/pres/", "audio": "pr/press/press__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/pres/", "audio": "pr/press/press__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "noun Middle English: from Old French presse (noun), presser (verb), from Latin pressare ‘keep pressing’, frequentative of premere." }