{
    "term": "fashion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a popular style of clothes, hair, etc. at a particular time or place; the state of being popular",
            "sensetop": "in fashion",
            "labels": "(North American English also)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the latest fashion trends"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the new season’s fashions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jeans are always in fashion.",
                    "contextForm": "in fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Long skirts have **come into fashion** again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some styles never **go out of fashion**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Black is always in fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He set a fashion for large hats."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need your expert fashion advice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've given up trying to keep up with the latest fashions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've started my own fashion line."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She always wore the latest fashions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had no fashion sense whatsoever."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She loves fashion and make-up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She started her career as a fashion model."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was respected as a fashion icon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Somebody call the fashion police, please!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new summer fashions have arrived."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The store sells everything from casual clothes to high fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What were your worst fashion disasters?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When did flares first come into fashion?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a magazine fashion spread"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a passion for French fashions and goods"
                },
                {
                    "text": "classic fashions for your wardrobe"
                },
                {
                    "text": "photographers at fashion shoots"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the fashion for long dresses"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the influence of Italian designer fashion on the clothes industry"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the latest fashion trend"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the popular fashions of the day"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The stores are full of the spring fashions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our products interpret the latest fashion and styles in an Australian way."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["contemporary", "current", "latest"],
                "verb + fashion": ["be", "be in", "become"],
                "fashion + verb": ["change"],
                "fashion + noun": ["statement", "trend", "model"],
                "preposition": ["after the fashion of", "fashion for", "fashion in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "changes in fashion",
                    "the fashion of the day",
                    "the height of fashion"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the business of making or selling clothes in new and different styles",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They all want to work in fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "household names in the world of fashion and design"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **fashion magazine**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **fashion industry**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the fashion runways of Italy and France"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the world's top fashion experts"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the most successful fashion houses in Milan"
                },
                {
                    "text": "fresh interest in the New York fashion scene"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Paris, the world's fashion capital"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her summer collection took the fashion world by storm."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["contemporary", "current", "latest"],
                "verb + fashion": ["be", "be in", "become"],
                "fashion + verb": ["change"],
                "fashion + noun": ["statement", "trend", "model"],
                "preposition": ["after the fashion of", "fashion for", "fashion in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "changes in fashion",
                    "the fashion of the day",
                    "the height of fashion"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a popular way of behaving, doing an activity, etc.",
            "sensetop": "fashion in somethingfashion for somethingfashion for doing something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This theory, though recent, is more than a passing fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fashions in art and literature come and go.",
                    "contextForm": "fashion in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He seemed to endorse the current fashion for neoliberal economics.",
                    "contextForm": "fashion for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fashion at the time was for teaching mainly the written language.",
                    "contextForm": "fashion for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "changing fashions in education"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The palazzo represents the height of architectural fashion for the mid-17th century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book traces how fashions have changed over the years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Pessimism has become the fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Careful spending has gone out of fashion in our consumer society."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["true…", "normal", "standard"],
                "verb + fashion": ["act in", "behave in", "proceed in"],
                "preposition": ["after a fashion", "in a fashion"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to some extent, but not very well",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can play the piano, after a fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Do you speak French?’ ‘After a fashion.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "So they became friends, after a fashion."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in the style of somebody/something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new library is very much after the fashion of Nash."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke in French after the fashion of the court."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a particular way",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "How could they behave in such a fashion?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I strive to get my work done in a timely fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The troops embarked in an orderly fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Each chapter is structured in a similar fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was proved right, in dramatic fashion, when the whole department resigned."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Address me in a proper fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Application for the course can be made in the normal fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Costs and revenues are assumed to behave in a linear fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He asked questions in a direct fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He delivered his speech in classic fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has a small vocabulary and is only able to express himself in a limited fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He insisted the meeting be held, in true spy novel fashion, in the open air."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He presents it in an entertaining fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Karpov struck back in no uncertain fashion to win the seventh game."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Light and sound are recorded in such different fashions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please proceed in an orderly fashion to the promenade deck."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She laid out her argument in a convincing fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was strolling in a leisurely fashion in the opposite direction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She writes in a serious fashion about the future"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has corrected that oversight in fine fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The convention proceeded in the normal fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The descent of the footpath starts in easy fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The story moves in circular fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They act in a purposeful and deliberate fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They celebrated their win in traditional fashion by spraying champagne everywhere."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had just gone out when, in typical fashion, the rain came down."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to tackle this problem in a coordinated fashion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why are they behaving in such a ridiculous fashion?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "batons ready in best police fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "slowly descending the stairs in a grand fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "when people confront you in a negative fashion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I remembered clearly the peculiar fashion in which it all happened."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that somebody is doing something or using something a lot",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæʃn/",
                "audio": "fa/fashion/fashion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfæʃn/",
                "audio": "fa/fashion/fashion__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘make, shape, appearance’, also ‘a particular make or style’): from Old French façon, from Latin factio(n-), from facere ‘do, make’."
}