{
    "term": "valid",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that is legally or officially acceptable",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Do you have a valid passport?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He bought a bus pass valid for one month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a valid claim to compensation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is your passport still valid?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The agreement is not necessarily valid in other countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The original written contract was held valid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These discounts are valid for travel within the continental United States."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Vouchers are only valid for races taking place before 31 December."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Law and justice"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become", "remain"],
                "adverb": ["still", "no longer", "legally"],
                "preposition": ["for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "based on what is logical or true",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She had valid reasons for not supporting the proposals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The point you make is perfectly valid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That argument is not strictly valid in this case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The old assumptions are no longer valid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a perfectly valid question to raise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We accepted several different approaches as valid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We use a different, but equally valid, technique."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a logically valid deduction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a universally valid set of moral principles"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Accepting valid criticism is an important part of the learning process."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid that's not a valid excuse for missing the deadline."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Of course we'll listen to your complaints, as long as they're valid."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "seem", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "that is accepted by the system",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a valid password"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvælɪd/",
                "audio": "va/valid/valid__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvælɪd/",
                "audio": "va/valid/valid__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from French valide or Latin validus ‘strong’, from valere ‘be strong’."
}