{
    "term": "gambling",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the activity of playing games of chance for money and of betting on horses, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "online/internet gambling"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police are trying to stop all illegal gambling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The commission licenses and regulates casino gambling and horse racing in the state."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ran up heavy gambling debts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an illegal **gambling den**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to have a gambling addiction/habit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He went to a psychiatrist about his compulsive gambling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If I were a gambling man, I'd put my money on him resigning soon."
                },
                {
                    "text": "internet gambling sites"
                },
                {
                    "text": "online gambling operations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She ran up gambling debts worth a million pounds."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["compulsive", "pathological", "problem"],
                "verb + gambling": ["legalize", "ban"],
                "gambling + noun": ["casino", "club", "den"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɡæmblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ga/gambling/gambling__gb_7.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɡæmblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "ga/gambling/gambling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}