{
    "term": "hearing",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the ability to hear",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her hearing is poor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The explosion damaged his hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She starting to lose her hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**hearing loss**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His hearing began to deteriorate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is there any chance that he'll get his hearing back?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She lost her hearing when she was a child."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Two months after the accident her hearing came back."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whales have acute hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a course in sign language for both deaf and hearing people"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["acute", "excellent", "good"],
                "verb + hearing": ["have", "lose", "get back"],
                "hearing + verb": ["deteriorate", "go", "come back"],
                "hearing + noun": ["impairment", "loss", "problems"],
                "phrases": ["hard of hearing"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an official meeting at which the facts about a crime, complaint, etc. are presented to the person or group of people who will have to decide what action to take",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially US English)(especially North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **court/disciplinary hearing**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An appeal hearing is scheduled for later this month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **hold/attend/adjourn a hearing**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "At a preliminary hearing the judge announced that the trial would begin on March 21."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Protesters are calling for a public hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was granted a divorce in a five-minute hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The committee has decided to hold the hearing in public."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hearing was told that the child had been left with a 14-year-old babysitter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judge dismissed the case without a hearing."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["final", "preliminary", "fair"],
                "verb + hearing": ["conduct", "hold", "schedule"],
                "hearing + verb": ["take place", "begin", "open"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at a/​the hearing",
                    "in a/​the hearing",
                    "pending a/​the hearing"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an opportunity to explain your actions, ideas or opinions",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to get/give somebody **a fair hearing**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His views may be unfashionable but he deserves a hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At least give our ideas a fair hearing before you reject them."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You haven't got much chance of your plan getting a sympathetic hearing."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fair", "sympathetic"],
                "verb + hearing": ["give somebody/​something", "get", "deserve"],
                "preposition": ["hearing for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "near enough to somebody so that they can hear what is said",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She shouldn't have said such things in your hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For God's sake, don't mention it in her hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had no reason to believe there was anyone within hearing."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "earshot"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "too far away to hear somebody/something or to be heard",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had moved out of hearing."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were just out of the captain's hearing."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɪərɪŋ/",
                "audio": "he/hearing/hearing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhɪrɪŋ/",
                "audio": "he/hearing/hearing__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}