{
    "term": "choice",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an act of choosing between two or more possibilities; something that you can choose",
            "sensetop": "choice between A and B",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We are faced with a difficult choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people will be forced to **make a choice** between heating and eating this winter.",
                    "contextForm": "choice between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We aim to help students make more informed career choices."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am sure you have made the **right choice**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Resources are finite, and choices have to be made between competing priorities and needs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a wide range of choices open to you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Doctors have to make moral choices every day of their lives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These are personal choices that people must make for themselves."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I now had a clear choice: either I accept their terms or I leave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the end, the choice was quite easy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She faced the stark choice of backing the new plan or losing her job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When did you make a conscious choice to become an artist?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your needs should dictate your choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a careful choice of words"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a limited range of choices available to buyers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a range of available choices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to make choices about their future"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Leaders must make good decisions and tough choices."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wondered whether he had made the right choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nutrition factors are driving consumer choices."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["careful", "good", "informed"],
                "verb + choice": ["make", "be faced with", "face"],
                "preposition": ["by choice", "from choice", "out of choice"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the right to choose; the possibility of choosing",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If I had the choice, I would stop working tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **had no choice** but to leave *(= this was the only thing he could do)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's going to do it. She doesn't have **much choice**, really, does she?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This government is committed to extending parental choice in education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After a delicious meal, the choice is yours: the late night disco or a stroll along the beach beneath a starry sky."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sandy had to tell his tale in halting Italian. Since Franco spoke no English, he had no choice in the matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had no choice about that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had no choice but to cancel my holiday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The way he behaved meant that we had no choice in the matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We gave her the choice, and she decided she'd like a bike for her birthday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone in a democracy has the right to exercise choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your decision leaves me with no choice but to resign."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can have first choice of all the rooms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to extend parental choice as to which schools children should attend"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People still have a choice about where to live."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I believe in freedom of choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were left with no choice but to trust her."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["clear", "free", "first"],
                "verb + choice": ["have", "exercise", "give somebody"],
                "preposition": ["choice about", "choice as to", "choice between"],
                "phrases": [
                    "freedom of choice",
                    "have little choice but to do something",
                    "have no choice but to do something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is chosen",
            "sensetop": "choice for somethingchoice as somethingchoice of something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This colour wasn't my **first choice**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's the obvious choice for the job.",
                    "contextForm": "choice for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Hawaii remains a popular choice for winter vacation travel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wouldn't be my choice as manager.",
                    "contextForm": "choice as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don’t like his choice of friends *(= the people he chooses as his friends)*.",
                    "contextForm": "choice of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think she's a very good choice for captain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a happy choice of venue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Maria defended her choice of name for the child."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mary is a popular choice as chair of the committee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Much ill health is the result of poor diet and lifestyle choices."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our first choice for a holiday is the north of Scotland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our first choice for a site was already taken."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People were asked about their top choices for meeting locations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She questioned the choice of Murphy for this role."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was starting to regret her choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hotel is the preferred choice for business people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bill is the obvious choice for captain of the team."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't think much of her choice of outfit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The restaurant is a good choice for a night out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He seems an odd choice for this sort of work."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["excellent", "good", "happy"],
                "verb + choice": ["regret", "defend", "justify"],
                "preposition": ["choice as", "choice for", "choice of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the number or range of different things from which to choose",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The menu has a good choice of desserts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There wasn't **much choice** of colour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't decide. There's too much choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The shop has a very limited choice of ties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We offer a choice of ten different destinations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The curtains come in a choice of twelve different colours."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do supermarkets offer consumers too much choice?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["good", "wide", "limited"],
                "verb + choice": ["have", "offer", "limit"],
                "choice + verb": ["be available (to somebody)", "be open to somebody"],
                "preposition": ["choice of"],
                "phrases": ["be spoilt for choice"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to have such a lot of things to choose from that it is very difficult to make a decision",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "because you have chosen",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't go there by choice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't have come to this cafe by choice!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "that is chosen by a particular group of people or for a particular purpose",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's the software of choice for business use."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "that you choose yourself",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "First prize will be a meal for two at the restaurant of your choice."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used for saying that there is very little difference between two or more things that you can choose",
            "labels": "(informal, especially British English)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tʃɔɪs/",
                "audio": "ch/choice/choice__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tʃɔɪs/",
                "audio": "ch/choice/choice__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French chois, from choisir ‘choose’, of Germanic origin and related to choose."
}