{
    "term": "relationship",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the way in which two people, groups or countries behave towards each other or deal with each other",
            "sensetop": "relationship between A and Brelationship with somebody",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **personal/working relationship**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a master-servant relationship"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is an opportunity to **build** positive customer **relationships**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The relationship between the police and the local community has improved.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the bilateral relationship between the US and China"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a very **close relationship** with her sister.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have **established a** good working **relationship** with my boss."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have a **relationship of trust** with our clients."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Spend time developing face-to-face relationships with your clients."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He creates an intimate relationship with the audience."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We formed a terrific relationship and went on to work together many times."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two leaders succeeded in maintaining a successful relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company would not have prospered without its close financial relationships with government agencies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Exercises such as this help forge strong relationships within the team."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some people think only about themselves, even in family relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Prime Minister mentioned Britain's special relationship with the US."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We want to create relationships across disciplinary boundaries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Building strong community relationships is essential."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The focus is on relationships among European countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The play is about power relationships at work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The school has a very good relationship with the community."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They enjoyed a close working relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They established a relationship of trust."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We want to improve the relationship that exists between the university and industry."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["friendly", "good", "happy"],
                "verb + relationship": ["enjoy", "have", "begin"],
                "relationship + verb": ["exist", "deepen", "develop"],
                "relationship + noun": ["difficulties", "problems", "breakdown"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the relationship",
                    "relationship among",
                    "relationship between"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the breakdown of a relationship",
                    "a network of relationships",
                    "a web of relationships"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a loving and/or sexual friendship between two people",
            "sensetop": "relationship with somebodyrelationship between A and Bin a relationship",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their affair did not develop into a **long-term relationship**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was his first **sexual relationship**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Money problems have put a strain on their relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was **having a relationship** with a younger man.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She got involved in a **romantic relationship** with a colleague."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The relationship between Joe and Carmen is at the heart of the film.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you in a relationship?",
                    "contextForm": "in a relationship"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People in **same-sex relationships** want equal pension rights."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At the moment he isn't in a relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How long have you been in this relationship?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not ready to get into a new relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had brief relationships with several women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These problems have affected all of his intimate relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My husband and I have a very strong relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her early experiences led to her having difficulty in forming relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two of them have a happy and loving relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People need support to get out of abusive relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was just getting over a failed relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We want to educate children about sex and relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The songs reflect her experiences of love and relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It takes work to maintain a relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's had a series of miserable relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was not married, but he was in a stable relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's not very good at handling personal relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I tried everything to make our relationship work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His parents did not know about their relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have publicly affirmed their relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In any relationship there has to be some give and take."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lack of trust destroys many relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She ended the relationship when she found out about his gambling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their relationship has always been a stormy one."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["friendly", "good", "happy"],
                "verb + relationship": ["enjoy", "have", "begin"],
                "relationship + verb": ["exist", "deepen", "develop"],
                "relationship + noun": ["difficulties", "problems", "breakdown"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the relationship",
                    "relationship among",
                    "relationship between"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the breakdown of a relationship",
                    "a network of relationships",
                    "a web of relationships"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the way in which two or more things are connected",
            "sensetop": "relationship between A and Brelationship to somethingin relationship to somethingrelationship with something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The study demonstrated associations, but no causal relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They **examine the relationship** between poverty and crime.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She explores the **intimate relationship** between creation and pain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is often an **inverse relationship** between the power of the tool and how easy it is to use."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a **symbiotic relationship** *(= in which both depend on the other and both get benefits)* between our urban centres and the countryside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This comment **bore no relationship to** the subject of our conversation.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **complex relationship** of culture to politics"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They measured height in relationship to weight.",
                    "contextForm": "in relationship to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Job insecurity had a **significant relationship** with alcohol abuse.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A clear relationship emerged in the study between happiness and level of education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of depression to health risk behaviours among college students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His latest book examines the relationship between spatial awareness and mathematical ability."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't see the relationship between the figures and the diagram."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No statistically significant relationship existed between the occurrences."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our research will explore the relationships among these variables."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The different varieties of the language are in a dynamic relationship with each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fee bears little relationship to the service provided."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a close relationship between increased money supply and inflation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They discovered a relationship between depression and lack of sunlight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They found no significant relationship between birth order and birth weight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Numerous studies have shown a positive relationship between home values and proximity to parks and green spaces."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Family instability during adolescence has a strong linear relationship with criminality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the inverse relationship between gas consumption and air temperature"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the relationship of a parasite to its host"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the symbiotic relationship between corals and algae"
                },
                {
                    "text": "When you invest, there's an inverse relationship between risk and potential returns."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People alter their voices in relationship to background noise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Women and men stand in a different relationship to language."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["close", "direct", "clear"],
                "verb + relationship": ["bear", "have", "analyze"],
                "relationship + verb": ["exist", "emerge"],
                "preposition": [
                    "in a/​the relationship",
                    "relationship among",
                    "relationship between"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the nature of the relationship",
                    "stand in a… relationship to something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the way in which a person is related to somebody else in a family",
            "sensetop": "relationship between A and Brelationship to somebodyrelationship with somebody",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They have a very healthy father-son relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not sure of the exact relationship between them—I think they're cousins.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship between A and B"
                },
                {
                    "text": "their relationship to each other",
                    "contextForm": "relationship to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He claimed to have a distant relationship with royalty.",
                    "contextForm": "relationship with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a film about a dysfunctional mother / daughter relationship"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have quite an unconventional sibling relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Different cultures have different ways to classify family relationships."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The relationship between mother and son is a very significant one."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The degree of increased hereditary risk will depend on your relationship to the person affected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘What is your relationship with Douglas?’—‘He's my step-father.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's my mum's cousin's daughter, so I'm not sure what that makes our relationship."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Patients were also asked about less close relationships such as half siblings and grandparents."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["blood", "family", "kin"],
                "preposition": ["relationship between", "relationship to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp/",
                "audio": "re/relationship/relationship__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈleɪʃnʃɪp/",
                "audio": "re/relationship/relationship__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}