{
    "term": "press",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/ki/kitchen_crushing_grating_squeezing.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "newspapers and magazines",
            "sensetop": "in the press",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **local/national/foreign press**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **popular/tabloid press** *(= newspapers with a lot of pictures and stories about famous people)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **music/sporting press** *(= newspapers and magazines about music/sport)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **mainstream press** is/are ignoring this story."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The case has been widely **reported in the press**.",
                    "contextForm": "in the press"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **freedom of the Press/press freedom** *(= the freedom to report any events and express opinions)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The event is bound to attract wide **press coverage** *(= it will be written about in many newspapers)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "According to French **press reports**, three people have been killed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a White House **press briefing**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He issued a press statement insisting on his innocence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The right-wing press mostly backed the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was no mention of the incident in the national press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is constantly being attacked by the press."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"],
                "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"],
                "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"],
                "preposition": ["in the press"],
                "phrases": [
                    "get a good, bad, etc. press",
                    "get good, bad, etc. press",
                    "have a good, bad, etc. press"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the journalists and photographers who work for newspapers and magazines",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The Press was/were not allowed to attend the trial."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has been harassed by the press, who desperately need a story."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **told the press** that there had been ‘further progress’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She told them not to **talk to the press**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Did the senator deliberately mislead the press?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She showed the doorman her press pass."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Someone must have alerted the press that she was going to be there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The president was briefed before meeting the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They introduced measures including muzzling the press and illegal detainment."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"],
                "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"],
                "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"],
                "preposition": ["in the press"],
                "phrases": [
                    "get a good, bad, etc. press",
                    "get good, bad, etc. press",
                    "have a good, bad, etc. press"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the type or amount of reports that newspapers write about somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The airline has **had a bad press** recently *(= journalists have written unpleasant things about it)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The demonstration got very little press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His latest novel **didn't get (a) very good press** *(= was not praised in the media)*."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["foreign", "international", "local"],
                "verb + press": ["alert", "brief", "tell"],
                "press + noun": ["briefing", "release", "statement"],
                "preposition": ["in the press"],
                "phrases": [
                    "get a good, bad, etc. press",
                    "get good, bad, etc. press",
                    "have a good, bad, etc. press"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a machine for printing books, newspapers, etc.; the process of printing them",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We were able to watch the books rolling off the presses."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These prices are correct at the time of **going to press**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a story that is **hot off the press** *(= has just appeared in the newspapers)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The newspaper goes to press at 6 o'clock."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The presses are already rolling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their new book is in press."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["printing"],
                "verb + press": ["go to"],
                "press + verb": ["roll"],
                "preposition": ["in press"],
                "phrases": [
                    "hot off the press",
                    "hot off the presses",
                    "stop the press"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a business that prints and publishes books",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Oxford University Press"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a piece of equipment that is used for creating pressure on things, to make them flat or to get liquid from them",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a trouser press"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an olive press"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "an act of pushing something with your hand or with a tool that you are holding",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He gave the bell another press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Those shirts need a press *(= with an iron)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "a large number of people or things competing for space or movement",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the press of bodies all moving the same way"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Among the press of cars he glimpsed a taxi."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "throng"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "a large cupboard, usually with shelves, for holding clothes, books, etc.",
            "labels": "(Irish English, Scottish English)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pres/",
                "audio": "pr/press/press__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pres/",
                "audio": "pr/press/press__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun Middle English: from Old French presse (noun), presser (verb), from Latin pressare ‘keep pressing’, frequentative of premere."
}