{
    "term": "duration",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the length of time that something lasts or continues",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The school was used as a hospital for the duration of the war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a contract of three years’ duration"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Taking antibiotics will shorten the duration of the illness."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The next contract will be of shorter duration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The overall duration of the flight was 11 hours."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brief", "short", "limited"],
                "verb + duration": ["decrease", "reduce", "shorten"],
                "preposition": [
                    "for the duration (of)",
                    "of… duration",
                    "throughout the duration of"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "until the end of a particular situation, especially a war",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His wife and children had gone for the duration to the Lake District to escape the bombs."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/djuˈreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "du/duration/duration__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/duˈreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "du/duration/duration__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare ‘to last’, from durus ‘hard’."
}