{
    "term": "addition",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a thing that is added to something else",
            "sensetop": "addition to something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All of these technologies are fairly recent additions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the latest addition to our range of cars",
                    "contextForm": "addition to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a **welcome addition** to the literature of western art history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an addition to the family (= another child)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "last minute additions to the government’s package of proposals"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have made several additions to the collection recently."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["useful", "valuable", "welcome"],
                "verb + addition": ["make"],
                "preposition": ["in addition", "addition to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of adding something to something else",
            "sensetop": "addition of something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Add salt, tasting with every addition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Pasta's basic ingredients are flour and water, sometimes **with the addition of** eggs or oil.",
                    "contextForm": "addition of something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["useful", "valuable", "welcome"],
                "verb + addition": ["make"],
                "preposition": ["in addition", "addition to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a new part that is added to a building",
            "sensetop": "addition (to something)",
            "labels": "(North American English)British English",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "architects who specialize in home additions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The addition should match the architecture of the house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a 22 000-square-foot addition designed by a Japanese architect"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a family-room addition to his home"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["building", "room", "two-story"],
                "verb + addition": ["build", "design"],
                "preposition": ["addition to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the process of adding two or more numbers together to find their total",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "children learning addition and subtraction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He worked it out through simple addition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She can do addition, but she hasn't learned subtraction yet."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["simple"],
                "verb + addition": ["do"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used when you want to mention another person or thing after something else",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In addition to these arrangements, extra ambulances will be on duty until midnight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is, in addition, one further point to make."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/addition/addition__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/addition/addition__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin additio(n-), from the verb addere, from ad- ‘to’ + the base of dare ‘put’."
}