{
    "term": "sufficient",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "enough for a particular purpose; as much as you need",
            "sensetop": "sufficient to do somethingsufficient for something/somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Allow sufficient time to get there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "One dose should be sufficient."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These reasons are not sufficient to justify the ban.",
                    "contextForm": "sufficient to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our budget is hardly sufficient to pay people, let alone buy any new equipment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is £100 sufficient for your expenses?",
                    "contextForm": "sufficient for something/somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The salary proved sufficient for his needs."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["quite", "barely", "hardly"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈfɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "su/sufficient/sufficient__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈfɪʃnt/",
                "audio": "su/sufficient/sufficient__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘legally satisfactory’): from Old French, or from Latin sufficient- ‘meeting the need of’, from sufficere ‘put under, meet the need of’, from sub- ‘under’ + facere ‘make’."
}