{
    "term": "tact",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the ability to deal with difficult or embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Settling the dispute required great tact and diplomacy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is not exactly known for her tact."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The incident should have been handled with more tact by the police."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The situation called for considerable tact."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their host, who was the soul of tact, never mentioned the incident again."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "sensitivity",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great"],
                "verb + tact": ["have", "call for", "need"],
                "preposition": ["with tact"],
                "phrases": ["a lack of tact", "tact and diplomacy"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tækt/",
                "audio": "ta/tact/tact__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/tækt/",
                "audio": "ta/tact/tact__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus ‘touch, sense of touch’, from tangere ‘to touch’."
}