{
    "term": "parent",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person’s father or mother",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's still living with his parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sue and Ben have recently become parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It can be difficult to be a good parent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her **adoptive parents** *(= who have legally adopted her as their child)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not easy being a **foster parent** *(= who looks after a child for a period of time without legally adopting him/her)* to these children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "his **biological/birth parents** *(= natural parents, not ones who adopt or foster)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Emma is a **lone parent** with two children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More childcare options and more paid leave will improve the lives of **working parents**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The study showed that children with involved parents do better at school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have just become the proud parents of a baby girl."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They may not be my biological parents but I consider them my real mum and dad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Concerned parents want more information about the safety of these products."
                },
                {
                    "text": "More and more women are caring for both young children and elderly parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was born in Montana to Greek immigrant parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are all the children of divorced parents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My parents' generation didn't worry about sitting their kids in front of the TV."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spends every Christmas at her parents' house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's important for parents and teachers to work together."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages", "Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["married", "unmarried", "divorced"],
                "parent + noun": ["company"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "an animal or a plant which produces other animals or plants",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the parent bird/tree"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an organization that produces and owns or controls smaller organizations of the same type",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a parent bank and its subsidiaries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The subsidiary eventually outgrew its parent company and took it over."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpeərənt/",
                "audio": "pa/parent/parent__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈperənt/",
                "audio": "pa/parent/parent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin parent- ‘bringing forth’, from the verb parere. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent."
}