{
    "term": "attachment",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a document that you send to somebody using email",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "No attachment was included."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["email", "unsolicited", "infected"],
                "verb + attachment": ["include", "send", "open"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of joining one thing to another; a thing that joins two things together",
            "sensetop": "attachment of something to somethingattachment to something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "All cars have points for the attachment of safety restraints."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They discussed the attachment of new conditions to the peace plans.",
                    "contextForm": "attachment of something to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had to check the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the plane.",
                    "contextForm": "attachment to something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a feeling of love for somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "attachment (to somebody)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a child’s strong attachment to its parents"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prisoners can develop attachments to their guards."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["close", "deep", "passionate"],
                "verb + attachment": ["feel", "have", "develop"],
                "preposition": ["attachment to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "belief in and support for an idea or a set of values",
            "sensetop": "attachment (to something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the popular attachment to democratic government"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a tool that you can fix onto a machine, to make it do another job",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an electric drill with a range of different attachments"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a short time spent working with an organization such as a hospital, school or part of the armed forces",
            "sensetop": "on attachment (to something)",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a 4-month training attachment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's on attachment to the local hospital.",
                    "contextForm": "on attachment (to something)"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃmənt/",
                "audio": "at/attachment/attachment__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃmənt/",
                "audio": "at/attachment/attachment__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘arrest for contempt of court’): from Old French attachement, from atachier ‘fasten, fix’ or estachier, based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake ‘post’."
}