{
    "term": "prospective",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "expected to do something or to become something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a prospective buyer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a phone call from a prospective client today."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "expected to happen soon",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They are worried about prospective changes in the law."
                },
                {
                    "text": "On learning of a prospective sale, the lawyer should call the client as soon as possible."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈspektɪv/",
                "audio": "pr/prospective/prospective__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈspektɪv/",
                "audio": "pr/prospective/prospective__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘looking forward, having foresight’): from obsolete French prospectif, -ive or late Latin prospectivus, from Latin prospectus ‘view’, from prospicere ‘look forward’, from pro- ‘forward’ + specere ‘to look’."
}