{
    "term": "jail",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a prison",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially US English)(especially North American English)(British English)(North American English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She spent a year in jail."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been released from jail."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a ten-year jail sentence"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Britain’s overcrowded jails"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's gone to jail for fraud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His lawyer worked hard to keep him out of jail."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How long has she been in jail?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He avoided jail by pleading insanity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She could be out of jail in two years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was held overnight at the county jail."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["city", "county", "local"],
                "verb + jail": ["go to", "put somebody in", "send somebody to"],
                "jail + noun": ["sentence", "term", "time"],
                "preposition": ["at a/​the jail", "in (a/​the) jail"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dʒeɪl/",
                "audio": "ja/jail/jail__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dʒeɪl/",
                "audio": "ja/jail/jail__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: based on Latin cavea. The word came into English in two forms, jaiole from Old French and gayole from Anglo-Norman French gaole (surviving in the spelling gaol), originally pronounced with a hard g, as in goat."
}