{
    "term": "recent",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "that happened or began only a short time ago",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **recent study/report/survey**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a recent event/development/discovery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Prime Minister discussed the issue during his most recent visit to Poland."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There have been many changes **in recent years**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**in recent months/weeks/days**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **relatively recent** phenomenon"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is only **in the recent past** that these problems have arisen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a relatively recent development"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The next chapter summarizes recent developments in the field."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["very", "comparatively", "fairly"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːsnt/",
                "audio": "re/recent/recent__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːsnt/",
                "audio": "re/recent/recent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘fresh’): from Latin recens, recent- or French récent."
}