{
    "term": "suggestion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an idea or a plan that you mention for somebody else to think about",
            "sensetop": "suggestion for somethingsuggestion on somethingsuggestion about somethingsuggestion that…",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can I **make a suggestion**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you **have any suggestions**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I would like to **offer a suggestion**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He **rejected** my **suggestion** as impractical."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The report offers **suggestions for improvement** to policy.",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd like to hear your suggestions for ways of raising money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We welcome any comments and suggestions on these proposals.",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are there any suggestions about how best to tackle the problem?",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He agreed with my suggestion that we should change the date.",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are **open to suggestions** *(= willing to listen to ideas from other people)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to get it there by four. **Any suggestions?**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you give us any suggestions for a slogan?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They made three specific suggestions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please send your suggestions via email to…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Employee suggestion boxes invite raw ideas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've had several helpful suggestions from colleagues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Management welcomes practical suggestions on how to improve the facilities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think we might take up the suggestion of printing the books in Hong Kong."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have noted your suggestion and will give it due consideration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "suggestions for further reading"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["constructive", "excellent", "good"],
                "verb + suggestion": ["have", "come up with", "give somebody"],
                "suggestion + noun": ["box"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at the suggestion of",
                    "suggestion about",
                    "suggestion as to"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "amid suggestions that…",
                    "be open to suggestion",
                    "be open to suggestions"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a reason to think that something, especially something bad, is true",
            "sensetop": "suggestion of somethingsuggestion that…",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A spokesman **dismissed any suggestion** of a boardroom rift.",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no suggestion of any impropriety."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was no suggestion that he was doing anything illegal.",
                    "contextForm": "suggestion that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She left the country amid suggestions that she had stolen from the company."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They dismissed the suggestion that they hadn't worked hard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a book full of provocative suggestions."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "hint",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["constructive", "excellent", "good"],
                "verb + suggestion": ["have", "come up with", "give somebody"],
                "suggestion + noun": ["box"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at the suggestion of",
                    "suggestion about",
                    "suggestion as to"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "amid suggestions that…",
                    "be open to suggestion",
                    "be open to suggestions"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "putting an idea into people’s minds by connecting it with other ideas",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most advertisements work through suggestion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the power of suggestion"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no scientific basis to the method—it works by suggestion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These healers claim to remove the pain by the power of suggestion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "analgesia through hypnotic suggestion"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["implicit", "hypnotic"],
                "preposition": ["by suggestion", "through suggestion"],
                "phrases": ["the power of suggestion"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a slight amount or sign of something",
            "labels": "(formal or literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She looked at me with just a suggestion of a smile."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spoke English with a suggestion of a French accent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her eyes contained a strong suggestion of mischief."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "trace",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["faint", "mere", "slightest"],
                "verb + suggestion": ["carry", "have"],
                "preposition": ["at the suggestion of", "suggestion of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "because somebody suggested it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At his suggestion, I bought the more expensive printer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At the suggestion of his boss, he resigned."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Suggestions and advice"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈdʒestʃən/",
                "audio": "su/suggestion/suggestion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/səˈdʒestʃən//səɡˈdʒestʃən/",
                "audio": "su/suggestion/suggestion__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘an incitement to evil’): via Old French from Latin suggestio(n-), from the verb suggerere, from sub- ‘from below’ + gerere ‘bring’."
}