word-vault/dist/data/cards/pr/propaganda.json

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{
    "term": "propaganda",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "ideas or statements that may be false or present only one side of an argument that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "enemy propaganda"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a propaganda campaign"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been listening to his own propaganda for so long that he is in danger of believing it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Soviet propaganda against Fascism"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Olympics were of great propaganda value to the regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film was made in 1938 for propaganda purposes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The papers were full of political propaganda about nationalization."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pirate radio station broadcast anti-government propaganda."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the lies that were spewed out by the regime's propaganda machine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This document is pure party propaganda."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["government", "official", "party"],
                "verb + propaganda": ["broadcast", "counter", "spread"],
                "propaganda + noun": ["battle", "campaign", "effort"],
                "phrases": ["somebody’s own propaganda"],
                "preposition": ["propaganda  about", "propaganda  against"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌprɒpəˈɡændə/",
                "audio": "pr/propaganda/propaganda__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌprɑːpəˈɡændə/",
                "audio": "pr/propaganda/propaganda__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Italian, from modern Latin congregatio de propaganda fide ‘congregation for propagation of the faith’, which was a committee of cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for foreign missions (founded in 1622). The current sense dates from the early 20th cent."
}