{
    "term": "drought",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a long period of time when there is little or no rain",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Farmers are facing ruin after two years of severe drought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the worst droughts on record"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country’s entire grain harvest has been hit by drought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "England has had several summer droughts in recent years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Large areas of the country are affected by severe drought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the newer plants in the garden died during the drought."
                },
                {
                    "text": "plants that can withstand drought"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Crop failures were caused by drought and a lack of fertilizer."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather", "The environment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["devastating", "extreme", "severe"],
                "verb + drought": ["have", "cause", "break"],
                "drought + verb": ["affect something"],
                "drought + noun": ["conditions", "resistance", "tolerance"],
                "preposition": ["during a/​the drought", "in a/​the drought"],
                "phrases": ["in times of drought", "months, years, etc. of drought"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a long period of time when there is a lack of something that is needed or wanted",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The team is desperate to end a ten-game **goal drought**."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/draʊt/",
                "audio": "dr/drought/drought__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/draʊt/",
                "audio": "dr/drought/drought__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Old English drūgath ‘dryness’, of Germanic origin; compare with Dutch droogte; related to dry."
}