{
    "term": "charity",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an organization for helping people in need",
            "sensetop": "charity for somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **registered charity**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the UK's largest **children's charity**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The concert will raise money for local charities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My parents always supported charities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a charity for homeless people",
                    "contextForm": "charity for somebody/something"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["international", "local", "national"],
                "verb + charity": ["donate (money) to", "give (money) to", "support"],
                "charity + noun": ["appeal", "drive", "auction"],
                "preposition": ["for charity", "charity for"],
                "phrases": ["an act of charity"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "organizations for helping people in need, considered as a group; the money, food, help, etc. that they give",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most of the runners in the London Marathon are **raising money for charity**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A portion of the proceeds was **donated to charity**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you give much to charity?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **charity event** *(= organized to get money for charity)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All the profits go to charity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a charity auction/concert/football match"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She does a lot of charity work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to live on/off charity (= to live on money which other people give you because you are poor)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school raised a lot of money for charity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school raised over a hundred pounds for charity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are proud people who don't accept charity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have no money and are forced to live on charity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He refused to live off charity."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Social issues"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["international", "local", "national"],
                "verb + charity": ["donate (money) to", "give (money) to", "support"],
                "charity + noun": ["appeal", "drive", "auction"],
                "preposition": ["for charity", "charity for"],
                "phrases": ["an act of charity"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "kind behaviour and sympathy towards other people, especially when you are judging them",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her article showed no charity towards her former friends."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He replied patiently, with more charity than I deserved."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "you should help and care for your own family, etc. before you start helping other people",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃærəti/",
                "audio": "ch/charity/charity__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtʃærəti/",
                "audio": "ch/charity/charity__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Old English (in the sense ‘Christian love of one's fellows’): from Old French charite, from Latin caritas, from carus ‘dear’."
}