{
    "term": "passport",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an official document that identifies you as a citizen of a particular country, and that you may have to show when you enter or leave a country",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **valid passport**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **fake passport**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a South African passport"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **issue/confiscate a passport**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was stopped as I went through **passport control** *(= where passports are checked)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "EU **passport holders**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a passport photo"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I usually travel on my Irish passport."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Embassy made him surrender his passport."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The European Parliament voted to adopt biometric passports."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have to show your passport at the border."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need to renew my passport."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a full British passport"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the UK Passport Agency"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by air", "Law and justice", "Holidays"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["valid", "full", "fake"],
                "verb + passport": ["apply for", "renew", "get"],
                "passport + verb": ["be valid", "expire"],
                "passport + noun": ["photo", "photograph", "picture"],
                "preposition": ["passport into", "passport to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a thing that makes something possible or enables you to achieve something",
            "sensetop": "passport to something",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The only passport to success is hard work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The gold medal is his passport into professional boxing."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "key",
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["valid", "full", "fake"],
                "verb + passport": ["apply for", "renew", "get"],
                "passport + verb": ["be valid", "expire"],
                "passport + noun": ["photo", "photograph", "picture"],
                "preposition": ["passport into", "passport to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɑːspɔːt/",
                "audio": "pa/passport/passport__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæspɔːrt/",
                "audio": "pa/passport/passport__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (denoting authorization to depart from a port): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass’ + port ‘seaport’."
}