{
    "term": "threat",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a statement in which you tell somebody that you will punish or harm them, especially if they do not do what you want",
            "sensetop": "threat against somebody/somethingthreat to do somethingthreat of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **make threats** against somebody",
                    "contextForm": "threat against somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is prepared to **carry out her threat** to resign.",
                    "contextForm": "threat to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She received **death threats** on social media."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a phony **bomb threat**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "crimes involving violence or the threat of violence",
                    "contextForm": "threat of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's unwise to make threats that you cannot carry out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The kids took no notice of the teacher's idle threats."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company's pay offer was accompanied by thinly veiled threats if it was rejected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government refused to give in to the hijackers' threats."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Teachers have lifted their threat of strike action."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["dire", "terrible", "empty"],
                "verb + threat": ["issue", "make", "utter"],
                "preposition": ["threat against"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the possibility of trouble, danger or disaster",
            "sensetop": "under threat (from somebody/something)threat of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "These ancient woodlands are under threat from new road developments.",
                    "contextForm": "under threat (from somebody/something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many wild plants are under threat of extinction."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is a real threat of war.",
                    "contextForm": "threat of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **threat of terrorism/violence/attack**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **imminent/immediate/real/potential threat** of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "With little access to clean drinking water and sanitation, the inhabitants **face a** constant **threat** of disease."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The forecast is for rain with the threat of thunderstorms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "At the end of the Cold War, the **nuclear threat** receded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What can we do to counter this threat?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "considerable", "dangerous"],
                "verb + threat": ["be", "constitute", "pose"],
                "threat + noun": ["assessment", "level"],
                "preposition": ["under threat", "threat from", "threat of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person or thing that is likely to cause trouble, danger, etc.",
            "sensetop": "threat to somebody/somethingthreat from something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Drugs **pose a major threat** to our society.",
                    "contextForm": "threat to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're facing a very strong **terrorist threat**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is unlikely to be a threat to the Spanish player in the final."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The missiles present a clear **threat to the security** of the nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magazine asked about the greatest **threats to** world **peace**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a threat to health/life/safety"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the threat from overfishing",
                    "contextForm": "threat from something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Viruses and other internet **security threats** can look like valid files or photos."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Food insecurity represents a **serious threat** for humanity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the environmental threat posed by oil spillages"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Translators do not yet perceive computers as a threat to their livelihood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The opposition presents no immediate threat to the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "considerable", "dangerous"],
                "verb + threat": ["be", "constitute", "pose"],
                "threat + noun": ["assessment", "level"],
                "preposition": ["under threat", "threat from", "threat of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θret/",
                "audio": "th/threat/threat__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θret/",
                "audio": "th/threat/threat__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English thrēat ‘oppression’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch verdrieten ‘grieve’, German verdriessen ‘irritate’."
}