{
    "term": "modification",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the act or process of changing something in order to improve it or make it more acceptable; a change that is made",
            "sensetop": "modification (of/to/in something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Considerable modification of the existing system is needed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It might be necessary to make a few slight modifications to the design."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A modification in the law has not led to an increase in prosecutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The design requires considerable modification."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The original plan had undergone fairly extensive modifications."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These bikes are designed for racing and cannot be used on the road without modification."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to make a few modifications to the proposals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a modification in smoking behaviour among older men"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people opposed to the genetic modification of plants"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "adaptation",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["considerable", "extensive", "major"],
                "verb + modification": ["involve", "need", "require"],
                "preposition": [
                    "with modification",
                    "without modification",
                    "modification in"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/",
                "audio": "mo/modification/modification__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌmɑːdɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/",
                "audio": "mo/modification/modification__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in Scots law, denoting the assessment of a payment): from French, or from Latin modificatio(n-), from modificare, from modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete."
}