{
    "term": "assembly",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a group of people who have been elected to meet together regularly and make decisions or laws for a particular region or country",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**state/legislative/federal/local assemblies**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Power has been handed over to provincial and regional assemblies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The national assembly has voted to adopt the budget."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the California Assembly"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the UN General Assembly"
                },
                {
                    "text": "assembly elections"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an elected assembly"
                },
                {
                    "text": "South Korea voted for its National Assembly this week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The assembly voted to delay the legislation to allow further consultation to take place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These issues have been discussed in the local assemblies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party has only 3 seats in the 51-seat National Assembly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["elected", "representative", "constitutional"],
                "verb + assembly": ["create", "form", "set up"],
                "assembly + verb": ["meet", "vote"],
                "assembly + noun": ["member", "seat", "building"],
                "preposition": ["in an/​the assembly"],
                "phrases": ["a meeting of the assembly", "a session of the assembly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the meeting together of a group of people for a particular purpose; a group of people who meet together for a particular purpose",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They were fighting for freedom of speech and freedom of assembly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was to address a public assembly on the issue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **assembly point** *(= a place where people have been asked to meet)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They demanded the right to hold peaceful assemblies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When the fire alarm sounds, leave the building and proceed to your assembly point."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Laws governing freedom of assembly were gradually being relaxed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Workers rushed to their designated assembly points."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["public", "peaceful", "unlawful"],
                "verb + assembly": ["hold", "call"],
                "assembly + noun": ["point"],
                "phrases": ["freedom of assembly", "the right of assembly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a meeting of the teachers and students in a school, usually at the start of the day, to give information, discuss school events or say prayers together",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The deputy head was taking *(= leading)* school assembly that day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The announcement was made during morning assembly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We hold an assembly every morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm playing the flute in assembly tomorrow morning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a whole school assembly every Friday morning."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["school", "morning"],
                "verb + assembly": ["have", "hold", "attend"],
                "assembly + noun": ["hall"],
                "preposition": ["at assembly", "during assembly", "in assembly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the process of putting together the parts of something such as a vehicle or piece of furniture",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Putting the bookcase together should be a simple assembly job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a car assembly plant"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the correct assembly of the parts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some assembly is required."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company has twenty assembly plants in Europe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This factory deals with final assembly and testing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "furniture designed for home assembly"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some assembly of the equipment is required."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["easy", "final"],
                "verb + assembly": ["require"],
                "assembly + noun": ["line", "area", "plant"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsembli/",
                "audio": "as/assembly/assembly__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈsembli/",
                "audio": "as/assembly/assembly__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French asemblee, feminine past participle of asembler, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ + simul ‘together’."
}