{
    "term": "bias",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a strong feeling in favour of or against one group of people, or one side in an argument, often not based on fair judgement",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "accusations of political bias in news programmes *(= that reports are unfair and show favour to one political party)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you think that there's still a bias against women in some industries?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The article examines **gender bias** in our schools."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bias often creeps in through the wording of questions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The newspaper has a clear bias towards the Conservative Party."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a systematic bias in favour of employers in this country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He claims that America's media has a liberal bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were claims of left-wing bias in teaching materials."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's difficult for any of us to look at a situation without some form of cultural bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is plenty of evidence of gender bias in the classroom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many golf clubs are bastions of class bias."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument", "Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clear", "definite", "marked"],
                "verb + bias": ["have", "demonstrate", "display"],
                "bias + verb": ["creep in", "exist", "occur"],
                "preposition": ["with bias", "without bias", "with a bias"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an interest in one thing more than others; a special ability",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The course has a strong practical bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Leila had a marked scientific bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In some British universities there was a bias towards pure science."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the fact that the results of research or an experiment are not accurate because a particular factor has not been considered when collecting the information",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If a response rate is low, the risk of bias in the findings will be greater."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have now tried to correct the bias in our original report."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The data was checked for potential biases."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Scientific research"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the bias of a piece of cloth is an edge cut diagonally across the threads",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The skirt is cut on the bias."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a bias strip"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaɪəs/",
                "audio": "bi/bias/bias__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbaɪəs/",
                "audio": "bi/bias/bias__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘oblique line’; also as an adjective meaning ‘oblique’): from French biais, from Provençal, perhaps based on Greek epikarsios ‘oblique’."
}