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{"id": "precarious", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "precarious", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["mid 17th century: from Latin precarius \u2018obtained by entreaty\u2019 (from prex, prec- \u2018prayer\u2019) + -ous"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/precarious_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "pr\u026a\u02c8k\u025b\u02d0r\u026a\u0259s"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse"], "examples": [{"text": "a precarious ladder"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0808520.005", "shortDefinitions": ["not securely held or in position"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["dependent on chance; uncertain"], "examples": [{"text": "he made a precarious living as a painter"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0808520.007", "shortDefinitions": ["dependent on chance"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "uncertain"}, {"language": "en", "text": "insecure"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unreliable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsure"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unpredictable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undependable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "risky"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hazardous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dangerous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsafe"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hanging by a thread"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hanging in the balance"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perilous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "treacherous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "on a slippery slope"}, {"language": "en", "text": "on thin ice"}, {"language": "en", "text": "touch-and-go"}, {"language": "en", "text": "built on sand"}, {"language": "en", "text": "doubtful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "dubious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "delicate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tricky"}, {"language": "en", "text": "problematic"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "precarious", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0011408.001"}]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "dangerous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hazardous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perilous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unsafe"}, {"language": "en", "text": "precarious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "risky"}, {"language": "en", "text": "deceptive"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unreliable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "undependable"}, {"language": "en", "text": "unstable"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "treacherous", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0015118.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "precarious"}], "type": "headword", "word": "precarious"}], "word": "precarious"}
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