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{
"term": "submit",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "submit",
"heSheIt": "submits"
},
"pastSimple": "submitted",
"pastParticiple": "submitted",
"ingForm": "submitting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to give a document, proposal, etc. to somebody in authority so that they can study or consider it",
"sensetop": "submit somethingsubmit something to somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **submit an application/a claim/a proposal**",
"contextForm": "submit something"
},
{
"text": "Completed projects must be submitted by 10 March."
},
{
"text": "She **submitted her report** to the committee.",
"contextForm": "submit something to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Articles should be **submitted electronically **as email attachments."
},
{
"text": "Candidates for the degree are required to submit a 30 000-word thesis."
},
{
"text": "He formally submitted his resignation."
},
{
"text": "Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research."
},
{
"text": "They have submitted plans for our approval."
},
{
"text": "They have submitted an application for planning permission to build an extension."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["formally", "respectfully", "humbly"],
"verb + submit": [
"ask somebody to",
"invite somebody to",
"require somebody to"
],
"preposition": ["for", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to accept the authority, control or greater strength of somebody/something; to agree to something because of this",
"sensetop": "submit to somebody/somethingsubmit yourself to somebody/something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She refused to submit to threats.",
"contextForm": "submit to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He submitted himself to a search by the guards.",
"contextForm": "submit yourself to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "He submitted voluntarily to arrest."
},
{
"text": "They abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians."
},
{
"text": "They were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule."
}
],
"topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["voluntarily", "willingly", "meekly"],
"verb + submit": ["refuse to", "agree to", "be prepared to"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to say or suggest something",
"sensetop": "submit that…",
"labels": "(law or formal)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence was inadmissible."
},
{
"text": "May I respectfully submit that this is not the right thing to do?"
},
{
"text": "She submitted that the local authority should bear the cost."
}
],
"topics": ["Suggestions and advice"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪt/",
"audio": "su/submit/submit__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪts/",
"audio": "su/submit/submits__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪd/",
"audio": "su/submit/submitted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/submit/submitting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪt/",
"audio": "su/submit/submit__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪts/",
"audio": "su/submit/submits__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪd/",
"audio": "su/submit/submitted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "su/submit/submitting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin submittere, from sub- ‘under’ + mittere ‘send, put’. Sense (1) ‘present for judgement’ dates from the mid 16th cent."
}