{
    "term": "inmate",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "one of the people living in an institution such as a prison or a psychiatric hospital",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The jail has 500 inmates."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was attacked by a fellow inmate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The inmates were transferred to an undisclosed location."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a camp where more than 4 000 inmates are housed"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a former inmate of an Ohio prison"
                },
                {
                    "text": "inmates serving lengthy terms"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["fellow", "former", "new"],
                "verb + inmate": ["transfer", "free", "release"],
                "inmate + verb": ["escape", "serve something"],
                "inmate + noun": ["population"],
                "preposition": ["among inmate"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnmeɪt/",
                "audio": "in/inmate/inmate__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪnmeɪt/",
                "audio": "in/inmate/inmate__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (denoting a person who shared a house, specifically a lodger or subtenant): probably originally from inn + mate, later associated with in."
}