{
    "term": "correspondence",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the letters, emails, etc. a person sends and receives",
            "sensetop": "correspondence with somebody",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**personal/private correspondence**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **correspondence column/page** *(= in a newspaper)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jane Austen's correspondence with her sister",
                    "contextForm": "correspondence with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was leafing through piles of correspondence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have seen the correspondence between the company and the college."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Numerous items of correspondence have been received on this subject."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please send correspondence to ‘Money Monthly’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The department intercepted the correspondence of foreign diplomats."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The secretary deals with all the correspondence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "copies of her correspondence with the composer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "files full of confidential correspondence relating to the company's expansion plans"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the correspondence columns of the ‘London Review of Books’"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["confidential", "personal", "private"],
                "… of correspondence": ["item", "pile"],
                "verb + correspondence": ["enter into", "exchange", "have"],
                "correspondence + noun": ["course", "school", "column"],
                "preposition": [
                    "by correspondence",
                    "through correspondence",
                    "in correspondence with"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the activity of writing letters",
            "sensetop": "correspondence (with somebody)in correspondence",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I refused to enter into any correspondence *(= to exchange letters)* with him about it.",
                    "contextForm": "correspondence (with somebody)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have been in correspondence for months.",
                    "contextForm": "in correspondence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We kept up a correspondence for many years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have been in correspondence with the manager of the store."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have had correspondence with the company director on this matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I would spend the time reading or catching up on my correspondence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We would certainly be happy to enter into correspondence with interested parties about the idea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a lively correspondence in ‘The Times’ about ways of preparing tripe"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["confidential", "personal", "private"],
                "… of correspondence": ["item", "pile"],
                "verb + correspondence": ["enter into", "exchange", "have"],
                "correspondence + noun": ["course", "school", "column"],
                "preposition": [
                    "by correspondence",
                    "through correspondence",
                    "in correspondence with"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a connection between two things; the fact of two things being similar",
            "sensetop": "correspondence (between A and B)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There is a close correspondence between the two extracts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The child can see the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and buttonholes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a close correspondence between theory and practice"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["direct", "exact", "one-to-one"],
                "preposition": ["correspondence between"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɒrəˈspɒndəns/",
                "audio": "co/correspondence/correspondence__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndəns/",
                "audio": "co/correspondence/correspondence__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin correspondentia, from correspondent- ‘corresponding’ from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’."
}