{
    "term": "reconstruction",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the process of changing or improving the condition of something or the way it works; the process of putting something back into the state it was in before",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the reconstruction of the educational system"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the post-war reconstruction of Germany"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a reconstruction period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a large-scale urban reconstruction project"
                },
                {
                    "text": "companies bidding for post-war reconstruction contracts"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major", "complete", "total"],
                "verb + reconstruction": ["undergo", "undertake", "perform"],
                "reconstruction + noun": ["period", "effort", "work"],
                "phrases": ["a reconstruction based on something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the activity of building again something that has been damaged or destroyed",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the reconstruction of the sea walls"
                },
                {
                    "text": "surgical reconstruction of his mouth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "reconstruction costs following the cyclone"
                },
                {
                    "text": "breast reconstruction surgery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bombed city is now undergoing extensive reconstruction."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major", "complete", "total"],
                "verb + reconstruction": ["undergo", "undertake", "perform"],
                "reconstruction + noun": ["period", "effort", "work"],
                "phrases": ["a reconstruction based on something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a copy of something that no longer exists",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The doorway is a nineteenth-century reconstruction of Norman work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a historical reconstruction based on contemporary documents"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a life-size reconstruction of a Viking longboat"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dramatic reconstruction of school life in the 1940s"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major", "complete", "total"],
                "verb + reconstruction": ["undergo", "undertake", "perform"],
                "reconstruction + noun": ["period", "effort", "work"],
                "phrases": ["a reconstruction based on something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an act of acting out events that are known to have happened, in order to try and get more information or better understanding about what happened, especially a crime",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Last night police staged a reconstruction of the incident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police have staged a reconstruction of the events leading up to the murder."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major", "complete", "total"],
                "verb + reconstruction": ["undergo", "undertake", "perform"],
                "reconstruction + noun": ["period", "effort", "work"],
                "phrases": ["a reconstruction based on something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "(in the US) the period after the Civil War when the southern states returned to the US and laws were passed that gave rights to African Americans",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʃn/",
                "audio": "re/reconstruction/reconstruction__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʃn/",
                "audio": "re/reconstruction/reconstruction__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}