{
    "term": "construction",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process or method of building or making something, especially roads, buildings, bridges, etc.",
            "sensetop": "under constructionduring construction",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Construction began this year and will take approximately 18 months."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the costs of **road construction** and maintenance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Work has begun on the construction of the new airport."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the construction of a new database"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our new offices are still under construction *(= being built)*.",
                    "contextForm": "under construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ethernet cabling was installed during construction.",
                    "contextForm": "during construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **construction industry**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**construction work/workers**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **construction company/firm**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**construction projects/costs/materials**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Construction of the new road has now been completed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Major engineering challenges will be faced during construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The drainage system needs careful construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the heavy construction industry"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "massive", "basic"],
                "verb + construction": ["begin", "start", "complete"],
                "construction + verb": ["be underway"],
                "construction + noun": ["industry", "market", "sector"],
                "preposition": ["during (the) construction", "under construction"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the people and activities involved in making buildings",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "50 000 more jobs will go from construction in the next five years."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the way that something has been built or made",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The bridges are similar in construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "ships of steel construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The earliest Greek temples were small buildings, simple in construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "walls of solid construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a schoolhouse of brick construction"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a thing that has been built or made",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The summer house was a simple wooden construction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a massive steel construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a two-storey brick construction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "massive constructions of bamboo and paper"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the way in which words are used together and arranged to form a sentence, phrase, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "grammatical constructions"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the creating of something from ideas, opinions and knowledge",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the construction of a new theory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "changes in the social construction of marriage"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the way in which words, actions, statements, etc. are understood by somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What construction do you put on this letter *(= what do you think it means)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ruling on the proper construction to be given to section 78 of the Act"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a strict construction of the clause"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈstrʌkʃn/",
                "audio": "xc/construction/xconstruction__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kənˈstrʌkʃn/",
                "audio": "xc/construction/xconstruction__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from Latin constructio(n-), from construere ‘heap together’, from con- ‘together’ + struere ‘pile, build’."
}