{
    "term": "innovation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something",
            "sensetop": "innovation in something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an age of technological innovation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is very interested in product design and innovation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Too strict a regulatory system will stifle innovation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "innovation in engineering",
                    "contextForm": "innovation in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Technical innovation may occur directly in the factory."
                },
                {
                    "text": "industries where constant product innovation is a criterion for survival"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["constant", "continuous", "successful"],
                "verb + innovation": ["accelerate", "encourage", "facilitate"],
                "innovation + verb": ["happen", "occur"],
                "innovation + noun": ["process"],
                "preposition": ["innovation in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a new idea, way of doing something, etc. that has been introduced or discovered",
            "sensetop": "innovation in something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "technological innovations designed to save energy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "recent innovations in steel-making technology",
                    "contextForm": "innovation in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She believed she had come up with one of the greatest innovations of modern times."
                },
                {
                    "text": "innovations in machinery and instruments"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mathematical astronomy was the great innovation by the Greeks of the 5th century BC."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "important", "major"],
                "verb + innovation": ["come up with", "introduce", "design"],
                "innovation + verb": ["occur"],
                "preposition": ["innovation in"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃn/",
                "audio": "in/innovation/innovation__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃn/",
                "audio": "in/innovation/innovation__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin innovatio(n-), from the verb innovare, from in- ‘into’ + novare ‘make new’ (from novus ‘new’)."
}