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{"id": "circumlocution", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "circumlocution", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "circumlocutional", "text": "circumlocutional"}, {"id": "circumlocutionary", "text": "circumlocutionary"}, {"id": "circumlocutionist", "text": "circumlocutionist"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English: from Latin circumlocutio(n-) (translating Greek periphrasis), from circum \u2018around\u2019 + locutio(n-) from loqui \u2018speak\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "mass", "text": "Mass", "type": "Countability"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/circumlocution_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02ccs\u0259\u02d0k\u0259ml\u0259\u02c8kju\u02d0\u0283(\u0259)n"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive"], "examples": [{"text": "his admission came after years of circumlocution"}, {"notes": [{"text": "count noun", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "he used a number of poetic circumlocutions"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0185070.005", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "communicative_style", "text": "Communicative_Style"}], "shortDefinitions": ["use of many words where fewer would do"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "periphrasis"}, {"language": "en", "text": "circuitousness"}, {"language": "en", "text": "indirectness"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "circumlocution", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0002339.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "circumlocution"}], "type": "headword", "word": "circumlocution"}], "word": "circumlocution"}
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