{
    "term": "relevant",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "closely connected with the subject you are discussing or the situation you are in",
            "sensetop": "relevant to somebody/somethingrelevant for somebody/somethingit is relevant to do something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**relevant information/facts/documents/factors**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The incident is still under investigation by the **relevant authorities**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a relevant suggestion/question/point"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The decision was in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Police Act 1996."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you have the relevant experience?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These comments are not directly relevant to this inquiry.",
                    "contextForm": "relevant to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This book is **particularly relevant** for the study of Irish history of this period.",
                    "contextForm": "relevant for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was clearly relevant to consider what effect the proposed works would have on the land.",
                    "contextForm": "it is relevant to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Send me all the relevant information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These decisions are directly relevant to environmental issues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is there a morally relevant difference between human life and animal life?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Resist the temptation to discuss topics that are not strictly relevant to the essay question."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The article was only marginally relevant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "information relevant to this case"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He made one or two highly relevant points."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't think that question is really very relevant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are looking for someone with relevant experience in childcare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We should consider everything, even if it doesn't seem immediately relevant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can get the relevant information from your admissions officer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "vocationally relevant qualifications"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["especially", "extremely", "highly"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of being valuable and useful to people in their lives and work",
            "sensetop": "relevant to somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her novel is still relevant today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Past imperial glories are hardly relevant to the present day.",
                    "contextForm": "relevant to somebody/something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈreləvənt/",
                "audio": "re/relevant/relevant__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈreləvənt/",
                "audio": "re/relevant/relevant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent. (as a Scots legal term meaning ‘legally pertinent’): from medieval Latin relevant- ‘raising up’, from Latin relevare."
}