{
    "term": "divorce",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the legal ending of a marriage",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The marriage **ended in divorce** in 1996."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an increase in the **divorce rate** *(= the number of divorces in a year)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have agreed to **get a divorce**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Divorce proceedings** *(= the legal process of divorce)* started today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bella wants a divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He remarried after a divorce from his first wife, Kate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She told him she was filing for divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She cited adultery as grounds for divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He hasn't signed the divorce papers yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is waiting for the divorce to come through before she remarries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He told her that he was married but getting a divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Neither partner had considered divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Once the divorce is finalized, I plan to move to Bermuda."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over 50 000 divorces were granted last year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She decided not to date for a while after a messy divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He filed for divorce in 2019."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is seeking a divorce on the grounds of cruelty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They watched their parents go through an acrimonious divorce."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The church may disapprove but Catholics can and do obtain civil divorces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The divorce rate has been growing steadily since 1971."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The majority of divorces are initiated by women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These days divorce is rarely contested."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her divorce from the pop star"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the lawyers handling their divorce"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships", "Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["amicable", "uncontested", "no-fault"],
                "verb + divorce": ["want", "apply for", "ask for"],
                "divorce + verb": ["come through"],
                "divorce + noun": ["court", "case", "proceedings"],
                "preposition": ["divorce from", "divorce on the grounds of"],
                "phrases": ["grounds for divorce"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an act of separating two things; the ending of a relationship between two things",
            "sensetop": "divorce (between A and B)",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the divorce between religion and science"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvɔːs/",
                "audio": "di/divorce/divorce__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈvɔːrs/",
                "audio": "di/divorce/divorce__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}