{
    "term": "faculty",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a department or group of related departments in a college or university",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Faculty of Law"
                },
                {
                    "text": "students who are doing degrees in the Arts Faculty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Faculty of Arts"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["Arts", "English", "law"],
                "faculty + noun": ["member"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the faculty", "faculty of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a member of the faculty",
                    "the dean of (the) faculty",
                    "the head of (the) faculty"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "all the teachers in a faculty of a college or university",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Law School faculty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a faculty meeting"
                },
                {
                    "text": "faculty members"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The faculty is/are meeting to discuss the issue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Larger grants may ensure more funding for faculty development."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My faculty adviser made an effort to contact me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a hearing before a faculty committee"
                },
                {
                    "text": "collaboration across faculties"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["college", "departmental", "university"],
                "verb + faculty": ["hire", "recruit", "retain"],
                "faculty + noun": ["appointment", "position", "development"],
                "preposition": ["on the faculty", "faculty at", "faculty of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "all the teachers of a particular university or college",
            "labels": "(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "faculty members"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She joined the faculty of the University of Maryland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the faculty at public institutions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "her colleagues on the faculty"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The degree of job security for tenured faculty is high relative to most other jobs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Teachers are typically part-timers and adjunct faculty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was fortunate to receive a faculty appointment at Ohio State."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["college", "departmental", "university"],
                "verb + faculty": ["hire", "recruit", "retain"],
                "faculty + noun": ["appointment", "position", "development"],
                "preposition": ["on the faculty", "faculty at", "faculty of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "any of the physical or mental abilities that a person is born with",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the faculty of sight"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She retained her mental faculties *(= the ability to think and understand)* until the day she died."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to be **in full possession of your faculties** *(= be able to speak, hear, see, understand, etc.)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "intellectual/critical/artistic faculties"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is not in full possession of all his mental faculties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We try to develop the student's critical faculties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the evolution of man's higher faculties"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["higher", "cognitive", "intellectual"],
                "verb + faculty": ["be in possession of", "have", "lose"],
                "preposition": ["faculty for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a particular ability for doing something",
            "sensetop": "faculty of/for (doing) something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the faculty of understanding complex issues"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had a faculty for seeing his own mistakes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "our faculty for picking up speech even in noisy environments"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["higher", "cognitive", "intellectual"],
                "verb + faculty": ["be in possession of", "have", "lose"],
                "preposition": ["faculty for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæklti/",
                "audio": "fa/faculty/faculty__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæklti/",
                "audio": "fa/faculty/faculty__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘make, do’."
}