{
    "term": "category",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a group of people or things with particular features in common",
            "sensetop": "in a categoryby category",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These are the nominees from each category."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He competed in the youngest age category.",
                    "contextForm": "in a category"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students over 25 **fall into a** different **category**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The results can be divided into three **broad categories**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is not useful to **divide** schoolchildren **into** separate **categories**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film doesn't **fit into** any specific **category**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can filter the results by category.",
                    "contextForm": "by category"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The line includes more than 30 product categories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flutes form a separate category of wind instruments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Older people are in a high-risk category for the virus."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of his ratings were in the highest category."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cities investigated fell into two broad categories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a separate category for children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have created a special category for part-time workers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a higher category of prison"
                },
                {
                    "text": "categories based on company size and location"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students over 25 are included in a different category."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are two main categories of homicide according to the law."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This case does not come within any of our established categories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We cannot exclude whole categories of people from the legislation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What subject category do the documents belong to?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of them fall into the same category."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "class",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["broad", "general", "large"],
                "verb + category": ["be included in", "belong to", "come into"],
                "category + verb": [
                    "comprise something",
                    "consist of something",
                    "contain something"
                ],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the category",
                    "within a/​the category",
                    "category of"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "be in a category (all) of its/​your own",
                    "be in its/​your own category",
                    "be in the same category (as something)"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkætəɡəri/",
                "audio": "ca/category/category__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkætəɡɔːri/",
                "audio": "ca/category/category__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the philosophical sense): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’."
}