{
    "term": "submit",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "submit",
            "heSheIt": "submits"
        },
        "pastSimple": "submitted",
        "pastParticiple": "submitted",
        "ingForm": "submitting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to give a document, proposal, etc. to somebody in authority so that they can study or consider it",
            "sensetop": "submit somethingsubmit something to somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **submit an application/a claim/a proposal**",
                    "contextForm": "submit something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Completed projects must be submitted by 10 March."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **submitted her report** to the committee.",
                    "contextForm": "submit something to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Articles should be **submitted electronically **as email attachments."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Candidates for the degree are required to submit a 30 000-word thesis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He formally submitted his resignation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Six groups were invited to submit proposals for the research."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have submitted plans for our approval."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have submitted an application for planning permission to build an extension."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["formally", "respectfully", "humbly"],
                "verb + submit": [
                    "ask somebody to",
                    "invite somebody to",
                    "require somebody to"
                ],
                "preposition": ["for", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to accept the authority, control or greater strength of somebody/something; to agree to something because of this",
            "sensetop": "submit to somebody/somethingsubmit yourself to somebody/something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She refused to submit to threats.",
                    "contextForm": "submit to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He submitted himself to a search by the guards.",
                    "contextForm": "submit yourself to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He submitted voluntarily to arrest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They abandoned their town rather than submit to the Persians."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were forced to submit to Bulgarian rule."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Discussion and agreement"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["voluntarily", "willingly", "meekly"],
                "verb + submit": ["refuse to", "agree to", "be prepared to"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to say or suggest something",
            "sensetop": "submit that…",
            "labels": "(law or formal)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Counsel for the defence submitted that the evidence was inadmissible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "May I respectfully submit that this is not the right thing to do?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She submitted that the local authority should bear the cost."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Suggestions and advice"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪt/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submit__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪts/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submits__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submitted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submitting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪt/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submit__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪts/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submits__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submitted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səbˈmɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "su/submit/submitting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin submittere, from sub- ‘under’ + mittere ‘send, put’. Sense (1) ‘present for judgement’ dates from the mid 16th cent."
}