{
    "term": "complete",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "including all the parts, etc. that are necessary; whole",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **complete list/sequence/picture/profile**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've collected the **complete set**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a complete guide to events in Oxford"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **complete works** of Shakespeare"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will receive payment for each complete day that you work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You've made my life complete."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A New Year celebration would not be complete without fireworks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No trip to Edinburgh would be complete without a visit to the castle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book survives complete only in the second edition of 1533."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a remarkably complete account of the negotiations"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "survive"],
                "adverb": ["remarkably", "very", "far from"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "finished",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The job is **almost complete**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ther ordering process is nearly complete."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Construction of the new airport is scheduled to be complete by late September."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Work on the office building will be complete at the end of the year."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["almost", "nearly", "substantially"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used when you are emphasizing something, to mean ‘to the greatest degree possible’",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We were in complete agreement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Refrigerators brought about a complete change in people's lifestyle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They sat in complete silence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a **complete stranger** to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The council's response shows a **complete lack** of understanding of the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The army remains in **complete control** of the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It came as a complete surprise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt a complete idiot."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You are talking **complete and utter** rubbish."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole thing has been a complete waste of time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film was a complete failure at the box office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their claims were widely believed despite a complete absence of evidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole procedure has become a complete farce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The train came to a complete standstill."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The play was a complete disaster from beginning to end."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The accident caused the complete closure of the road."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a complete myth that he has royal blood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was in complete command of the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "After they had gone there was complete silence."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "total"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "including something as an extra part or feature",
            "sensetop": "complete with something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The furniture comes complete with tools and instructions for assembly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cruise ship is really a floating village, complete with shops, cafes and a doctor's surgery."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpliːt/",
                "audio": "co/complete/complete__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpliːt/",
                "audio": "co/complete/complete__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere ‘fill up, finish, fulfil’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + plere ‘fill’."
}