{
    "term": "fixture",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a sports event that has been arranged to take place on a particular date and at a particular place",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are plans to make the race an annual fixture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Saturday’s fixture against Liverpool"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the season’s fixture list"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The club was fined for not fulfilling its fixtures at the weekend."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The golf club has staged many international fixtures."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team is playing an important fixture this evening."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a home fixture against Leeds"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["important", "major", "difficult"],
                "verb + fixture": ["play", "fulfil", "make something"],
                "fixture + noun": ["list"],
                "preposition": ["fixture against"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thing such as a bath or toilet that is fixed in a house and that you do not take with you when you move house",
            "labels": "(British English)(figurative)(British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(British English)(British English)(especially British English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The price of the house includes **fixtures and fittings**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has stayed with us so long he seems to have become **a permanent fixture**."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Houses and homes"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["original", "light", "permanent"],
                "phrases": ["fixtures and fittings"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɪkstʃə(r)/",
                "audio": "fi/fixture/fixture__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɪkstʃər/",
                "audio": "fi/fixture/fixture__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘fixing, becoming fixed’): alteration (first found in Shakespeare) of obsolete fixure (from late Latin fixura, from Latin figere ‘to fix’), with t inserted on the pattern of mixture."
}