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{
"term": "relevant",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "closely connected with the subject you are discussing or the situation you are in",
"sensetop": "relevant to somebody/somethingrelevant for somebody/somethingit is relevant to do something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**relevant information/facts/documents/factors**"
},
{
"text": "The incident is still under investigation by the **relevant authorities**."
},
{
"text": "a relevant suggestion/question/point"
},
{
"text": "The decision was in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Police Act 1996."
},
{
"text": "Do you have the relevant experience?"
},
{
"text": "These comments are not directly relevant to this inquiry.",
"contextForm": "relevant to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "This book is **particularly relevant** for the study of Irish history of this period.",
"contextForm": "relevant for somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "It was clearly relevant to consider what effect the proposed works would have on the land.",
"contextForm": "it is relevant to do something"
},
{
"text": "Send me all the relevant information."
},
{
"text": "These decisions are directly relevant to environmental issues."
},
{
"text": "Is there a morally relevant difference between human life and animal life?"
},
{
"text": "Resist the temptation to discuss topics that are not strictly relevant to the essay question."
},
{
"text": "The article was only marginally relevant."
},
{
"text": "information relevant to this case"
},
{
"text": "He made one or two highly relevant points."
},
{
"text": "I don't think that question is really very relevant."
},
{
"text": "They are looking for someone with relevant experience in childcare."
},
{
"text": "We should consider everything, even if it doesn't seem immediately relevant."
},
{
"text": "You can get the relevant information from your admissions officer."
},
{
"text": "vocationally relevant qualifications"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
"adverb": ["especially", "extremely", "highly"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the fact of being valuable and useful to people in their lives and work",
"sensetop": "relevant to somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her novel is still relevant today."
},
{
"text": "Past imperial glories are hardly relevant to the present day.",
"contextForm": "relevant to somebody/something"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈreləvənt/",
"audio": "re/relevant/relevant__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈreləvənt/",
"audio": "re/relevant/relevant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (as a Scots legal term meaning ‘legally pertinent’): from medieval Latin relevant- ‘raising up’, from Latin relevare."
}