{
    "term": "smart",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "looking clean and neat; well dressed in fashionable and/or formal clothes",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I have to be smart for work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You look very smart in that suit."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was incredibly smart in navy blue silk."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "clean, neat and looking new and attractive",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a smart suit"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were wearing their smartest clothes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was wearing a smart red coat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They wear smart blue uniforms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "smart new shoes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The car was a smart two-seater."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The restaurant has a smart new décor."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Clothes and Fashion"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "intelligent",
            "sensetop": "it is smart to do something",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(especially North American English)especially British English",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He is obviously a **smart guy**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why do **smart people** do such stupid things?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's smarter than her brother."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That was a **smart** career **move**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "OK, I admit it was not the **smartest thing** I ever did *(= it was a stupid thing to do)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is too ambitious, too smart for his own good."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's always smart to have a Plan B.",
                    "contextForm": "it is smart to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's smart enough to know what works and what doesn't."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you're smart, you'll take my advice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Companies are getting smart about how they use corporate planes."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "controlled by a computer, so that it appears to act in an intelligent way",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "smart bombs"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This smart washing machine will dispense an optimal amount of water for the load."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "connected with fashionable, rich people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "smart restaurants"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She mixes with **the smart set** *(= fashionable, rich people)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was one of the smart set in the 1920s."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reception would be very grand and smart."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "quick and usually done with force",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was struck with a smart crack on the head."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We set off at a smart pace."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "brisk"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smɑːt/",
                "audio": "sm/smart/smart__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/smɑːrt/",
                "audio": "sm/smart/smart__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English smeortan (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to German schmerzen; the adjective is related to the verb, the original sense (late Old English) being ‘causing sharp pain’; from this arose ‘keen, brisk’, which led to the current senses of ‘mentally sharp’ and ‘neat in a brisk, sharp style’."
}