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{
"term": "suggestion",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an idea or a plan that you mention for somebody else to think about",
"sensetop": "suggestion for somethingsuggestion on somethingsuggestion about somethingsuggestion that…",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Can I **make a suggestion**?"
},
{
"text": "Do you **have any suggestions**?"
},
{
"text": "I would like to **offer a suggestion**."
},
{
"text": "He **rejected** my **suggestion** as impractical."
},
{
"text": "The report offers **suggestions for improvement** to policy.",
"contextForm": "suggestion for something"
},
{
"text": "I'd like to hear your suggestions for ways of raising money."
},
{
"text": "We welcome any comments and suggestions on these proposals.",
"contextForm": "suggestion on something"
},
{
"text": "Are there any suggestions about how best to tackle the problem?",
"contextForm": "suggestion about something"
},
{
"text": "He agreed with my suggestion that we should change the date.",
"contextForm": "suggestion that…"
},
{
"text": "We are **open to suggestions** *(= willing to listen to ideas from other people)*."
},
{
"text": "We need to get it there by four. **Any suggestions?**"
},
{
"text": "Can you give us any suggestions for a slogan?"
},
{
"text": "They made three specific suggestions."
},
{
"text": "Please send your suggestions via email to…"
},
{
"text": "Employee suggestion boxes invite raw ideas."
},
{
"text": "I've had several helpful suggestions from colleagues."
},
{
"text": "Management welcomes practical suggestions on how to improve the facilities."
},
{
"text": "I think we might take up the suggestion of printing the books in Hong Kong."
},
{
"text": "I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have."
},
{
"text": "We have noted your suggestion and will give it due consideration."
},
{
"text": "suggestions for further reading"
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["constructive", "excellent", "good"],
"verb + suggestion": ["have", "come up with", "give somebody"],
"suggestion + noun": ["box"],
"preposition": [
"at the suggestion of",
"suggestion about",
"suggestion as to"
],
"phrases": [
"amid suggestions that…",
"be open to suggestion",
"be open to suggestions"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a reason to think that something, especially something bad, is true",
"sensetop": "suggestion of somethingsuggestion that…",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "A spokesman **dismissed any suggestion** of a boardroom rift.",
"contextForm": "suggestion of something"
},
{
"text": "There is no suggestion of any impropriety."
},
{
"text": "There was no suggestion that he was doing anything illegal.",
"contextForm": "suggestion that…"
},
{
"text": "She left the country amid suggestions that she had stolen from the company."
},
{
"text": "They dismissed the suggestion that they hadn't worked hard."
},
{
"text": "This is a book full of provocative suggestions."
}
],
"synonyms": "hint",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["constructive", "excellent", "good"],
"verb + suggestion": ["have", "come up with", "give somebody"],
"suggestion + noun": ["box"],
"preposition": [
"at the suggestion of",
"suggestion about",
"suggestion as to"
],
"phrases": [
"amid suggestions that…",
"be open to suggestion",
"be open to suggestions"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "putting an idea into people’s minds by connecting it with other ideas",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Most advertisements work through suggestion."
},
{
"text": "the power of suggestion"
},
{
"text": "There's no scientific basis to the method—it works by suggestion."
},
{
"text": "These healers claim to remove the pain by the power of suggestion."
},
{
"text": "analgesia through hypnotic suggestion"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["implicit", "hypnotic"],
"preposition": ["by suggestion", "through suggestion"],
"phrases": ["the power of suggestion"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a slight amount or sign of something",
"labels": "(formal or literary)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She looked at me with just a suggestion of a smile."
},
{
"text": "He spoke English with a suggestion of a French accent."
},
{
"text": "Her eyes contained a strong suggestion of mischief."
}
],
"synonyms": "trace",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["faint", "mere", "slightest"],
"verb + suggestion": ["carry", "have"],
"preposition": ["at the suggestion of", "suggestion of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "because somebody suggested it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "At his suggestion, I bought the more expensive printer."
},
{
"text": "At the suggestion of his boss, he resigned."
}
],
"topics": ["Suggestions and advice"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈdʒestʃən/",
"audio": "su/suggestion/suggestion__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/səˈdʒestʃən//səɡˈdʒestʃən/",
"audio": "su/suggestion/suggestion__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘an incitement to evil’): via Old French from Latin suggestio(n-), from the verb suggerere, from sub- ‘from below’ + gerere ‘bring’."
}