{
    "term": "flexible",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "able to change to suit new conditions or situations",
            "sensetop": "flexible about something",
            "labels": "(approving)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a more **flexible approach**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**flexible working** hours/practices"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our plans need to be flexible enough to cater for the needs of everyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you be flexible about when you take your leave?",
                    "contextForm": "flexible about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My mother is fairly flexible about what time I need to be home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to make the working day more flexible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A First National Bank loan is an extremely flexible facility."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What is needed is a more flexible design."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We can offer you flexible working hours."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "phrases": ["about"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "able to bend easily without breaking",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "flexible plastic tubing"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fitness program that keeps joints flexible and mobile"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Physics and chemistry"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfleksəbl/",
                "audio": "fl/flexible/flexible__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfleksəbl/",
                "audio": "fl/flexible/flexible__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin flexibilis, from flectere ‘to bend’."
}