{
    "term": "instrumental",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "important in making something happen",
            "sensetop": "instrumental in (doing) something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Conservation Trust performs an instrumental role in the protection of rural environments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.",
                    "contextForm": "instrumental in (doing) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were highly instrumental in bringing the business to Newtown."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "become"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "essentially"],
                "preposition": ["in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "made by or for musical instruments",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "instrumental music"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The songs are largely instrumental."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Music"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["largely", "mostly", "entirely"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "in the form that a noun, pronoun or adjective has when it refers to a thing that is used to do something",
            "labels": "(grammar)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the instrumental case"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstrəˈmentl/",
                "audio": "in/instrumental/instrumental__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstrəˈmentl/",
                "audio": "in/instrumental/instrumental__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via French from medieval Latin instrumentalis, from Latin instrumentum, from the verb instruere, from in- ‘upon, towards’ + struere ‘pile up’."
}