{
    "term": "intensive",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "involving a lot of work or activity done in a short time",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an intensive language course"
                },
                {
                    "text": "two weeks of intensive training"
                },
                {
                    "text": "intensive diplomatic negotiations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "highly intensive courses for business and professional people"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Working life"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "increasingly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "complete and extremely detailed; done with a lot of care",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His disappearance has been the subject of intensive investigation."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "increasingly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "aimed at producing as much food as possible using as little land or as little money as possible",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "intensive agriculture"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["highly", "very", "increasingly"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtensɪv/",
                "audio": "in/intensive/intensive__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈtensɪv/",
                "audio": "in/intensive/intensive__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘vehement, intense’): from French intensif, -ive or medieval Latin intensivus, from intendere ‘intend, extend, direct’, from in- ‘towards’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend’."
}