{
    "term": "norm",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a situation or a pattern of behaviour that is usual or expected",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The new design is a departure from the norm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Older parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the inner-city areas, poverty is the norm rather than the exception."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On-screen editing has become the norm for all student work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Small families are the norm nowadays."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "rule (4)",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accepted", "established", "ethical"],
                "verb + norm": ["be", "become", "conform to"],
                "preposition": ["above the norm", "below the norm", "over the norm"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a departure from the norm",
                    "a deviation from the norm",
                    "an exception to the norm"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "standards of behaviour that are typical of or accepted within a particular group or society",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**social/cultural norms**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She considered people to be products of the values and norms of the society they lived in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "accepted norms of behaviour"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accepted", "established", "ethical"],
                "verb + norm": ["be", "become", "conform to"],
                "preposition": ["above the norm", "below the norm", "over the norm"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a departure from the norm",
                    "a deviation from the norm",
                    "an exception to the norm"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a required or agreed standard, amount, etc.",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "detailed education norms for children of particular ages"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government claims that background radioactivity is well below international norms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a comparison of each child with the age norms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The revised norms are based on test scores of 2 050 children aged between five and ten."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Public examination systems set up a norm, on which each student is judged."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They want to discourage pay settlements over the norm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "accepted norms of international law"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɔːm/",
                "audio": "no/norm/norm__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/nɔːrm/",
                "audio": "no/norm/norm__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 19th cent.: from Latin norma ‘precept, rule, carpenter's square’."
}