{
    "term": "insist",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "insist",
            "heSheIt": "insists"
        },
        "pastSimple": "insisted",
        "pastParticiple": "insisted",
        "ingForm": "insisting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to demand that something happen or that somebody agree to do something",
            "sensetop": "insist on somebody/something doing somethinginsist on somebody's/something's doing somethinginsist that…",
            "labels": "(formal)(British English also)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I didn't really want to go but he insisted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stay and have lunch. I insist!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Please come with us.’ ‘Very well then, **if you insist**.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She insisted on him wearing a suit.",
                    "contextForm": "insist on somebody/something doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She insisted on his wearing a suit.",
                    "contextForm": "insist on somebody's/something's doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He insists that she come.",
                    "contextForm": "insist that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He insists that she should come."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He quietly but firmly insisted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm paying for this—no, I absolutely insist."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company insisted that the money be paid immediately."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["firmly", "strongly", "vehemently"],
                "verb + insist": ["continue to", "try to"],
                "preposition": ["on", "upon"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to state clearly that something is true, especially when other people do not believe you",
            "sensetop": "insist on somethinginsist (that)…+ speech",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He insisted on his innocence.",
                    "contextForm": "insist on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He insisted (that) he was innocent.",
                    "contextForm": "insist (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has always insisted that this was not the case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘It's true,’ she insisted.",
                    "contextForm": "+ speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He loudly insisted that he had a right to stay."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She still insists her critics are wrong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Jackson has repeatedly insisted that the allegations were false."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["firmly", "strongly", "vehemently"],
                "verb + insist": ["continue to", "try to"],
                "preposition": ["on", "upon"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪst/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insist__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪsts/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insists__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪd/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insisted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insisting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪst/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insist__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪsts/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insists__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪd/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insisted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈsɪstɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/insist/insisting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘persist, persevere’): from Latin insistere ‘persist’, from in- ‘upon’ + sistere ‘stand’."
}