{
    "term": "vice",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/vi/vice.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "criminal activities that involve sex or drugs",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "At the door were two plain-clothes detectives from the vice squad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bright 21-year-old turned to a secret life of vice after getting bored with her studies at college."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["secret"],
                "verb + vice": ["have", "indulge", "indulge in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "behaviour that is evil or immoral; a quality in somebody’s character that is evil or immoral",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The film ended most satisfactorily: vice punished and virtue rewarded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Greed is a terrible vice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Chocolate brownies are my only vice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He used his inheritance to indulge his vices of drinking and gambling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Of his many vices, his cruelty was the worst."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She often spends a fortune on clothes—it's her greatest vice."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The occasional cigar is my only vice."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["secret"],
                "verb + vice": ["have", "indulge", "indulge in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a tool with two metal blocks that can be moved together by turning a screw. The vice is used to hold an object in place while work is done on it.",
            "labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He held my arm in a **vice-like** *(= very firm)* **grip**."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vaɪs/",
                "audio": "vi/vice/vice__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/vaɪs/",
                "audio": "vi/vice/vice__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "senses 1 to 2 Middle English: via Old French from Latin vitium.sense 3 Middle English (denoting a screw or winch): from Old French vis, from Latin vitis ‘vine’."
}