dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/emp_MW.json

{
  "Empetraceae":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small family of heathlike shrubs (order Sapindales), having small diclinous flowers and drupes that resemble berries \u2014 compare crowberry sense 1a":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Empetrum , type genus + -aceae":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccemp\u0259\u2027\u02c8tr\u0101s\u0113\u02cc\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-085555",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "plural noun"
    ]
  },
  "Empetrum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus (the type of the family Empetraceae ) of low shrubs having flowers scattered and solitary or few in the axils \u2014 see crowberry":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek empetron , neuter of empetros growing on rock, from em- en- entry 2 + -petros (from petra rock)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8emp\u0259\u2027tr\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050817",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empathetic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "callous",
      "cold-blooded",
      "coldhearted",
      "hard",
      "hard-hearted",
      "heartless",
      "inhuman",
      "inhumane",
      "insensate",
      "obdurate",
      "unfeeling",
      "unsympathetic"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving, characterized by, or based on empathy":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an empathetic social worker who soon realized that the single mother was at her breaking point",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Open, informed, and empathetic conversations about how all employees want to work is important, but inclusion and inclusive retention strategies will require extra effort on the part of managers. \u2014 Sheryl Estrada, Fortune , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "Monitoring stress and workloads, proactively dealing with exhaustion and putting yourself in the shoes of others through empathetic conversations also help build trust and create stability in a highly volatile external environment. \u2014 Kumar Parakala, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
      "Throughout Spears\u2019 battle to end the conservatorship that controlled her personal and professional life for more than 13 years, Barrymore has been empathetic , given her own very public teen issues with fame, family and substance abuse. \u2014 Katie Atkinson, Billboard , 10 June 2022",
      "But being empathetic doesn't have to mean being slow and overly deliberate, especially given the urgency of re-inventing work spaces now that the pandemic is receding. \u2014 Phil Wahba, Fortune , 24 May 2022",
      "Cancer babies are known for being empathetic , nurturers and are emotionally intelligent. \u2014 Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
      "This thrilling yet, at its core, empathetic and humanist film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
      "One Woman\u2019s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, is a deeply empathetic and rigorously researched investigation into the murder. \u2014 Outside Online , 13 May 2022",
      "And as someone who is a byproduct of empathetic and intentional teaching (shoutout to the real Mrs. Abbott), Brunson\u2019s collaboration with the initiative makes sense. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 9 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1912, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccem-p\u0259-\u02c8the-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commiserative",
      "compassionate",
      "empathic",
      "humane",
      "sympathetic",
      "understanding"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025838",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "empathic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "callous",
      "cold-blooded",
      "coldhearted",
      "hard",
      "hard-hearted",
      "heartless",
      "inhuman",
      "inhumane",
      "insensate",
      "obdurate",
      "unfeeling",
      "unsympathetic"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": involving, characterized by, or based on empathy : empathetic":[
        "It is also during early childhood that people begin experiencing empathic guilt\u2014feeling distress when they have been the cause of someone else's discomfort.",
        "\u2014 Joseph Alper"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "gave an empathic nod as I recounted my repeated efforts to land a decent-paying job in a tough economy",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Doctors also discuss the need for support, but too often my empathic colleagues do not ask their patients about religion or faith or spirituality. \u2014 T. Salewa Oseni, STAT , 23 June 2022",
      "The key to straddling this line, Bhat says, is trying to be empathic towards our community at large. \u2014 Katherine Singh, refinery29.com , 18 May 2022",
      "The shift to remote work environments and employers being more empathic to childcare challenges during the pandemic has opened up a pandora\u2019s box\u2014and most employees are not looking to go back. \u2014 Jacqlyn Nedvin, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "The Pilots underscored their readiness to make a run at their second WCC title in three years Saturday afternoon with an empathic 69-44 win over Loyola Marymount at Orleans Arena. \u2014 oregonlive , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "DiFonzo, associate professor of psychology at Roberts Wesleyan College with a psychoanalyst\u2019s empathic style, tapped eight decades of research into the spread of rumors to understand what motivates and sustains groups like Sandy Hook Hoax. \u2014 Elizabeth Williamson, Wired , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "As friends, family and colleagues recalled the life of former Lake County Coroner Barbara Richardson, the recollections centered on her personal and empathic touch dealing with people under the most difficult of circumstances. \u2014 Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "Today, the best leaders are less authoritative and more empathic , often displaying more vulnerability than leaders did in the past. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Along with doing exercises in empathic communication, the couples learn to be vulnerable and trusting, even during conflict. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1909, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-",
      "em-\u02c8pa-thik",
      "em-\u02c8path-ik, im-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "commiserative",
      "compassionate",
      "empathetic",
      "humane",
      "sympathetic",
      "understanding"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212635",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "emperor penguin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) that is the largest known and that is noted for the male's habit of incubating the egg between the feet and a fold of abdominal skin resembling a pouch":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The emperor penguin 's disappearance could also have a dramatic effect on the ecosystem there. \u2014 Julia Musto, Fox News , 7 May 2022",
      "In the Antarctic the food chain is relatively small and any change to a species that is lower in the food chain could impact the health of the emperor penguin (a predator). \u2014 Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY , 6 May 2022",
      "In June 2011, for example, a juvenile emperor penguin washed ashore on Peka Peka Beach in New Zealand, some 2,000 miles from its coastal Antarctic home. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Named for the emperor penguin , which can dive to a depth of 1,800 feet, the coaster reaches speeds greater than 60 mph along the nearly 2,500-foot track. \u2014 Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
      "Blue penguins are native to the coastlines of Australia and New Zealand, warmer climates than where their emperor penguin relatives reside. \u2014 Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Since climate change is the emperor penguin \u2019s main threat, the potential Endangered Species Act listing could have significant ramifications. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 Aug. 2021",
      "SeaWorld said the coaster will mimic the emperor penguin \u2019s impressive underwater diving skills. \u2014 Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "An emperor penguin colony in the Antarctic's Weddell Sea was effectively wiped out in 2016 because of record-low sea ice and early ice breakup, Jenouvrier said. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-125424",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empery":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": wide dominion : empire":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1533, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emperie, borrowed from Anglo-French emperie, empirie, probably altered from empire empire , with the addition of the suffix -ie -y entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em-p(\u0259-)r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185034",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empest":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to infect with or as if with a contagion":[
        "sleeping in an empested atmosphere",
        "\u2014 Aldous Huxley"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1617, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "en- entry 1 + pest (noun)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em+",
      "\u0259\u0307m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225238",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "emphasis":{
    "antonyms":[
      "de-emphasis"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a particular prominence given in reading or speaking to one or more words or syllables":[],
      ": force or intensity of expression that gives impressiveness or importance to something":[],
      ": special consideration of or stress or insistence on something":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Our candidate's plan has a different emphasis .",
      "a prep school with a long-established emphasis on sports",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Examining Johnson\u2019s psyche unearths valuable insights, but McElvaine\u2019s emphasis on Johnson\u2019s manhood \u2014 both literal and figurative \u2014 infantilizes the former president. \u2014 Michael Bobelian, Washington Post , 1 July 2022",
      "Its focus on the Bible and emphasis on Christian family ideals make some Blue Haven mothers uncomfortable. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2022",
      "Federal officials said the $1 billion program created under last year\u2019s infrastructure law marks a shift in federal emphasis , with effects that could exceed the modest financial resources over five years. \u2014 Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News , 1 July 2022",
      "Thanks to Urban Meyer\u2019s emphasis on the biggest national targets along with a dropoff of talent, Glenville hasn\u2019t sent a player to Columbus since Marshoon Lattimore and Erick Smith showed up in 2014. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 30 June 2022",
      "There\u2019s a greater emphasis on teaching math and language arts \u2014 especially reading. \u2014 Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune , 29 June 2022",
      "However, not even the current movement to roll back LGBTQ rights nationwide has significantly changed Eureka's emphasis on coexistence, residents said. \u2014 Scottie Andrew, CNN , 29 June 2022",
      "With better visibility into the health of devices and an emphasis on practicing green computing habits, organizations can cut back on e-waste and costs and help move us toward a greener future. \u2014 Yassine Zaied, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
      "The brand\u2019s emphasis to not just create fashion alone may come from the founder\u2019s love for short films or her growing list of talents. \u2014 Greg Emmanuel, Essence , 28 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1534, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin, \"use of language to imply more than is actually said, implication\" (Late Latin also \"appearance,\" Medieval Latin \"prominence of expression, stress\"), borrowed from Greek \u00e9mphasis \"appearance in a smooth surface, reflection, outward appearance, setting forth, exposition, significance, force of expression,\" from empha-, stem in noun derivation of empha\u00ednein \"to exhibit, display, indicate,\" empha\u00ednesthai \"to be reflected, become visible\" (from em- en- entry 2 + pha\u00ednein \"to bring to light, cause to appear,\" and pha\u00ednesthai \"to become visible, appear\") + -sis -sis \u2014 more at fantasy entry 1 , phase entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em-f\u0259-s\u0259s",
      "\u02c8em(p)-f\u0259-s\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "accent",
      "accentuation",
      "stress",
      "underscoring",
      "weight"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162532",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "emphasise":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of emphasise British spelling of emphasize"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-220133",
    "type":[]
  },
  "emphasize":{
    "antonyms":[
      "de-emphasize",
      "play down"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to place emphasis on : stress":[
        "emphasized the need for reform"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "supermarket tabloids that emphasize sensational news stories",
      "that huge belt buckle only emphasizes his big gut",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Sadly, Bethesda's demo didn't include a VATS-like system that might emphasize loadout-specific tactics or give non-combat character archetypes a fighting chance. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 12 June 2022",
      "The aim of his statement, the former adviser said, was to emphasize that Ivanka Trump wasn't involved in legal discussions. \u2014 Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "The resolution alludes to a New Testament passage that emphasize Christ's love for children and Hebrew Bible teachings about children being a gift from God. \u2014 Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online , 4 June 2022",
      "Gen Z, teens and young adults born after 1996, have been flocking to apps that emphasize private messaging, live-streaming or allow their users to post content that disappears from public profiles after a certain amount of time. \u2014 Naomi Nix And Cat Zakrzewski, Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
      "And so there\u2019s been a really fruitful counter-narrative, which is to emphasize the way that music and people, and also scores or recordings, can be transnational, can go across borders and travel all around the world. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The original intent of some of these legal collections may have been to emphasize the need for freedom against larger dominant imperial forces. \u2014 Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The other, less-common approach was to emphasize the Old World exoticism of the artists. \u2014 Tim Gray, Variety , 21 Jan. 2022",
      "One goal of attending is to emphasize the role that subnational governments, like states and provinces, can play in advancing climate policy, said Lauren Sanchez, Newsom\u2019s senior adviser for climate. \u2014 Kathleen Ronayne, ajc , 29 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1793, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "emphas(is) + -ize":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em-f\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bz",
      "\u02c8em(p)-f\u0259-\u02ccs\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "accent",
      "accentuate",
      "feature",
      "foreground",
      "highlight",
      "illuminate",
      "play up",
      "point (up)",
      "press",
      "punctuate",
      "stress"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173820",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "emphatic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "nonassertive",
      "nonemphatic",
      "unemphatic"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": attracting special attention":[],
      ": constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something":[],
      ": tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action":[],
      ": uttered with or marked by emphasis":[
        "an emphatic refusal"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "They were emphatic about their political differences.",
      "the governor issued an emphatic denial of all charges",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Butler is fine in the few moments of offstage drama that the script allows, but most of the emotional action is telegraphed in Luhrmann\u2019s usual emphatic , breathless style. \u2014 New York Times , 23 June 2022",
      "Every genre can be represented in these songs about dads, whether that's transcendental chart-toppers like The Beatles, emphatic anthems of love from Stevie Wonder, or the Motown sound of Jackson 5. \u2014 Mia Uzzell, Glamour , 19 June 2022",
      "For all the darkness and sharpness of her book, R\u00f3is\u00edn, a fourth-generation Marxist born and raised in Australia, is a glowing, calming presence, with an emphatic poise reminiscent of Angela Davis. \u2014 Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
      "Exhibiting a determined confidence and grit all evening, Wiggins drove through the lane for an emphatic one-handed slam with 2:10 left to cap his brilliant performance on both ends. \u2014 Janie Mccauley, Hartford Courant , 14 June 2022",
      "The emphatic crack of the bat was an early indication of what was to come for Baltimore in the series finale against the Kansas City Royals, breaking out at the plate to even the four-game series at two games apiece. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 12 June 2022",
      "Though Triple H was emphatic about being done with wrestling, his future behind the scenes remains murky. \u2014 Alfred Konuwa, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Well more than 12 hours after Wiggins glided through the key and hammered home an emphatic dunk over Doncic, social media, sports talk radio and ESPN were still abuzz about the sequence. \u2014 Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle , 23 May 2022",
      "Kevin McCullar made an emphatic dunk with 15 seconds left to cap a 10-1 closing run for No. 3 seed Texas Tech, which advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 59-53 victory over Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. \u2014 Bernie Wilson, chicagotribune.com , 21 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French & Late Latin; French emphatique \"forcefully expressive,\" going back to Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin emphaticus, borrowed from Greek emphatik\u00f3s \"expressive, indicative,\" from empha-, stem in noun derivation of empha\u00ednein \"to exhibit, display, indicate\" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at emphasis":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8fa-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aggressive",
      "assertive",
      "dynamic",
      "energetic",
      "forceful",
      "full-blooded",
      "muscular",
      "resounding",
      "strenuous",
      "vehement",
      "vigorous",
      "violent"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073014",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "empire":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a juicy apple with dark red skin that is a cross between a McIntosh apple and a Red Delicious apple":[],
      ": imperial sovereignty, rule, or dominion":[],
      ": of, relating to, or characteristic of a style (as of clothing or furniture) popular in early 19th century France":[],
      ": the territory of such a political unit":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "She built a tiny business into a worldwide empire .",
      "He controlled a cattle empire in the heart of Texas.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Peter\u2019s wars and territorial expansion helped shape the contours of the later Russian empire , pushing its frontiers to areas of Finland in the north and the Black Sea in the south. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
      "When the Soviet Union collapsed and nations in that Soviet empire were free to make choices, many of them showed a strong desire to avoid close links with Moscow. \u2014 Frank Lavin, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "Second, Ukrainians want no part of a new Russian empire and overwhelmingly aspire to join the West. \u2014 Daniel Twining, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
      "Ukraine known as Novorossiya into the Russian empire . \u2014 Susanne Sternthal, The Conversation , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "The city\u2019s biggest collection of first- and second-generation Americans came from the Russian empire , including Poland and Ukraine. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "The failure of the Soviet war in Afghanistan hammered a giant nail into the coffin of the Soviet empire . \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "But there is little evidence to support the view that Russia's attack in Ukraine is part of a plan to reconstitute the Soviet empire . \u2014 Benjamin H. Friedman, The Week , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "This will be true disarmament of the bloody, agonizing Russian empire . \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 14 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)":"Noun",
      "1852, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from ( le premier ) Empire the first Empire of France":"Adjective",
      "Middle English, \"supreme power, position of an emperor, territory under an emperor's rule,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin imperium \"authority over family members and slaves exercised by the head of a household, supreme administrative authority, dominion, power exercised by a Roman emperor,\" from imper\u0101re \"to give orders, exercise authority, hold political power\" + -ium, deverbal suffix of function or state \u2014 more at emperor":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u00e4m-\u02ccpir",
      "\u02c8em-\u02ccp\u012b(-\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8em-\u02ccp\u012br"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "conglomerate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-220737",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empiric":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": charlatan sense 2":[],
      ": one who relies on practical experience":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1600, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emperiqe \"physician in ancient Greece and Rome who held that treatment should be based on observation rather than theory,\" borrowed from Latin emp\u012bricus, emp\u0113ricus, borrowed from Greek empeirik\u00f3s, derivative of empeirik\u00f3s, adjective, \"based on observation (of medical treatment), experienced,\" from empeir\u00eda \"experience, practice\" (derivative of \u00e9mpeiros \"experienced, practiced,\" from em- en- entry 2 + -peiros, derivative of pe\u00eera \"attempt, trial, test\") + -ikos -ic entry 1 ; pe\u00eera going back to *per-i\u032fa, derivative of a verbal base *per- perhaps going back to Indo-European *per- \"cross, pass\" \u2014 more at fare entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8pir-ik",
      "im-\u02c8pir-ik, em-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082711",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empirical":{
    "antonyms":[
      "nonempirical",
      "theoretical",
      "theoretic",
      "unempirical"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment":[
        "empirical laws"
      ],
      ": of or relating to empiricism":[],
      ": originating in or based on observation or experience":[
        "empirical data"
      ],
      ": relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory":[
        "an empirical basis for the theory"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Eventually, access to electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction technology provided the necessary empirical evidence to test the hypotheses, and the jigsaw pieces began to fall into place. \u2014 Gail Nichols , Ceramics Monthly , February 2002",
      "No religion, new or old, is subject to empirical proof, so what we have is a contest between faiths. \u2014 Harvey Cox , Atlantic , March 1999",
      "They collected plenty of empirical data from their experiments.",
      "guidelines for raising children that are based on empirical evidence",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Smart said empirical evidence is lacking about whether increasing firearms excise taxes affects gun violence. \u2014 Meagan Flynn, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
      "Utilize empirical data to gain stakeholder engagement. \u2014 Abiola Salami, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
      "The model is designed to track the flow of materials from production to loss, estimating losses at each stage of the material's life cycle based on empirical data. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 20 May 2022",
      "There is little empirical evidence that explains why. \u2014 Gina Barton, jsonline.com , 3 May 2022",
      "There is little empirical evidence that explains why. \u2014 Gina Barton, USA Today , 3 May 2022",
      "And though the journal is supposedly committed to empirical tests, no data were presented that might speak to alternative explanations, such as that the cause of the under-representation lies in the pipeline of prepared and interested students. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
      "Among social scientists, economists have gone the farthest in trying to formalize their theories with abstract mathematical models, and in developing a rigorous empirical methodology to validate them with. \u2014 Francis Fukuyama, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Whether such an impact would be the same across all business/non-profit collaborations is certainly an empirical question. \u2014 David Hessekiel, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "empiric \"of physicians in ancient Greece and Rome holding that treatment should be based on observation rather than theory\" (going back to Middle English emperic, borrowed from early Medieval Latin emp\u012bricus, borrowed from Greek empeirik\u00f3s, \"based on observation (of medical treatment), experienced\") + -al entry 1 \u2014 more at empiric":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pir-i-k\u0259l",
      "em-",
      "-i-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "existential",
      "experiential",
      "experimental",
      "objective",
      "observational"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043634",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "emplace":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to put into position":[
        "missiles emplaced around the city"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the plan is to emplace more guns on the ridge north of the camp",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Kevin had personally watched this man bury IEDs and train others how to emplace bombs. \u2014 Annie Jacobsen, Wired , 20 Jan. 2021",
      "Incentives, properly emplaced and communicated, are one excellent way to encourage behaviors based on your company\u2019s values. \u2014 Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY , 17 Mar. 2020",
      "The state Transportation Department is offering to produce and emplace roadside memorials as a way to keep highways free of roadside safety hazards. \u2014 USA TODAY , 15 Nov. 2019",
      "Older mine-hunting systems typically involved putting human divers or even marine mammals into the water to check out suspected mines, then emplacing explosives to destroy them at a distance. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 10 Sep. 2019",
      "Mines are munitions that are emplaced on the battlefield in order to modify enemy behavior. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 16 July 2019",
      "Mines are munitions that are emplaced on the battlefield in order to modify enemy behavior. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 16 July 2019",
      "Consider such a system of anti-tank munitions emplaced in the path of an oncoming enemy tank force. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 14 Nov. 2018",
      "How do such large lava flows get emplaced on the ocean floor"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1627, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "back-formation from emplacement":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pl\u0101s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "depose",
      "deposit",
      "dispose",
      "fix",
      "lay",
      "place",
      "position",
      "put",
      "set",
      "set up",
      "situate",
      "stick"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061141",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "emplacement":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a prepared position for weapons or military equipment":[
        "radar emplacements"
      ],
      ": a putting into position : placement":[],
      ": the situation or location of something":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "secret emplacement of missiles on the island",
      "the emplacement of the house, which is between two hulking mansions, makes it seem smaller than it is",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The next artillery emplacement in the city was inspired by one of the most obscure campaigns of the Civil War. \u2014 Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "One song had to be composed on a sandbag, by candlelight, in a disused mortar emplacement . \u2014 Anthony Lan, The New Yorker , 5 July 2021",
      "And at 10:59 am, Henry Nicholas Gunther of Baltimore\u2014once a supply sergeant, recently busted back to private\u2014charged alone toward a German emplacement , leveling a rifle. \u2014 Maryn Mckenna, Wired , 31 Dec. 2020",
      "The plant is in the second phase of resuming normal operations after having slowed the emplacement of waste this spring when the pandemic began, said spokesperson Bobby St. John. \u2014 USA TODAY , 17 Aug. 2020",
      "Ties between the northeastern neighbors nosedived in 2017 after Seoul accepted the emplacement of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system in southern South Korea. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Dec. 2019",
      "This quick-hardening ability allowed the French Army to build gun emplacements quickly in the first world war, and could have helped fortify rebel defenses on Hoth. \u2014 Alastair Marsh, Quartz , 29 Dec. 2019",
      "The base is built into subterranean caves, but concrete is still needed for the roofs and floors of the spacecraft hangars, and the defensive laser cannon emplacements . \u2014 Alastair Marsh, Quartz , 29 Dec. 2019",
      "The other exhibit is outdoors in what was once an artillery emplacement . \u2014 Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com , 21 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1742, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Middle French emplacer to emplace, from en- + place":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pl\u0101-sm\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "locale",
      "locality",
      "location",
      "locus",
      "place",
      "point",
      "position",
      "site",
      "spot",
      "venue",
      "where"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204450",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "employ":{
    "antonyms":[
      "employment",
      "engagement",
      "hire"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occupation , job":[],
      ": the state of being employed":[
        "in the city's employ"
      ],
      ": to devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person":[
        "employed all her energies to help the poor"
      ],
      ": to make use of (someone or something inactive)":[
        "employ a pen for sketching"
      ],
      ": to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary":[],
      ": to use (something, such as time) advantageously":[
        "a job that employed her skills"
      ],
      ": to use or engage the services of":[],
      ": use , purpose":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The company is accused of employing questionable methods to obtain the contract.",
      "You should find better ways to employ your time.",
      "I had to employ a lawyer to review the contract.",
      "It's a small company, employing a staff of only 20.",
      "Noun",
      "while you're under our employ , you can't do outside work for our competitors",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The Journal works with two sets of polling partners, who employ different methodologies. \u2014 WSJ , 29 June 2022",
      "The former is a technical mechanism the WHO can employ , while the latter is a rhetorical acknowledgement of vast global spread of a disease. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "Also in the first round, Miami faced the Atlanta Hawks, who employ one of the N.B.A.\u2019s best guards in Trae Young. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Our hemp is acquired from American farmers who employ the greatest and safest farming methods. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "Beckham is an unrestricted free agent, and as of Thursday had not announced who will employ him next season, when he is not expected to be available until midseason. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The candidates are both concerned that short-selling shares not only tends to put downward pressure on the market but also hurts retail investors who employ simple strategies that count on stocks rising. \u2014 Youkyung Lee, Bloomberg.com , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "California lawmakers enacted legislation in 2004 that imposes staffing ratios for hospitals and other health care providers who employ nurses. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Trump wanted to destroy governmental institutions; Nixon wanted to employ them to his ends but not to obliterate them. \u2014 David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Pierre Cardin is briefly in the employ of Schiaparelli. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
      "In a letter sent Friday to Democratic City Councilman Eric Costello, the chairman of the council\u2019s Ways and Means Committee that conducts the budget hearing process, Mosby counted 144 prosecutors in her employ . \u2014 Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun , 6 June 2022",
      "Waldman doesn't deny making the statements, but Depp's side argued that even though Waldman was under his employ , Depp was not involved or aware of these remarks. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 1 June 2022",
      "Some private enterprises may be attracted to scrutinizing employees like an intelligence agency might keep tabs on analysts and spies, although employ don\u2019t have access to the same data sources. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Burna Boy\u2019s frequent employ of an a cappella or minimalist arrangement meant the eager attendees could often be heard singing clearly, their voices as sweet as Burna\u2019s smile. \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Angell, who died earlier this month at the age of 101, spent 75 years in the employ of The New Yorker. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
      "Having begun the story before World War I, there's always been the lingering question of what awaits this aristocratic family and those in their employ as the second World War, and the conditions leading to it, come into view. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 20 May 2022",
      "That decision was partially practical: Huffman and Cupp employ staff who understand how to draw maps and have crafted every proposal approved by the Commission or state lawmakers to date. \u2014 Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer , 11 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1679, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emploien , from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier to entangle, apply, make use of, from Latin implicare to enfold, involve, from in- + plicare to fold \u2014 more at ply":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi",
      "\u02c8em-\u02ccpl\u022fi",
      "\u02c8im-\u02ccpl\u022fi"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for employ Verb use , employ , utilize mean to put into service especially to attain an end. use implies availing oneself of something as a means or instrument to an end. willing to use any means to achieve her ends employ suggests the use of a person or thing that is available but idle, inactive, or disengaged. looking for better ways to employ their skills utilize may suggest the discovery of a new, profitable, or practical use for something. an old wooden bucket utilized as a planter",
    "synonyms":[
      "assume",
      "engage",
      "fee",
      "hire",
      "lay on",
      "pay",
      "place",
      "recruit",
      "retain",
      "sign (up ",
      "take on"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190548",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "employable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": capable of being employed":[],
      ": one who is employable":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi-\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "available",
      "exploitable",
      "fit",
      "functional",
      "operable",
      "practicable",
      "serviceable",
      "usable",
      "useable",
      "useful"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "impracticable",
      "inoperable",
      "nonfunctional",
      "unavailable",
      "unemployable",
      "unusable"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "this wall map of the bay is for decoration only\u2014it's not employable for actual navigation",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "In fact, 74% of workers are willing to learn new skills to remain employable , and 76% find companies that offer additional training for staff more appealing. \u2014 Nancy Xiao, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
      "The days of long tenures at businesses and thinking that the skill sets someone gained with a college degree are enough to keep them employable is changing rapidly. \u2014 Jaime Taets, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
      "These statistics are not driven by a lack of employable skills. \u2014 Vicki Salemi, Forbes , 29 Oct. 2021",
      "Instead, colleges feed the narrative that a degree is required to be employable \u2014which is currently true in much of the business world. \u2014 WSJ , 26 Oct. 2021",
      "One study says one of out five American men are no longer employable as a result. \u2014 Oliver Staley, Quartz , 21 Sep. 2021",
      "As recently as last summer, there was even uncertainty about whether Anthony, the aging 10-time All-Star, was employable as a professional basketball player and could accept being a part of a supporting cast. \u2014 New York Times , 6 Aug. 2021",
      "This is a prime opportunity to respond to both the nationwide shortage of skilled professionals in fields like K-12 education and social work and the pressing need among students to gain immediately employable credentials. \u2014 Michael Horowitz, Forbes , 28 June 2021",
      "That\u2019s a huge number of people who will need to re-skill in order to remain relevant and employable . \u2014 David James, Forbes , 27 May 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1588, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1865, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-102432"
  },
  "employed":{
    "antonyms":[
      "employment",
      "engagement",
      "hire"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": occupation , job":[],
      ": the state of being employed":[
        "in the city's employ"
      ],
      ": to devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person":[
        "employed all her energies to help the poor"
      ],
      ": to make use of (someone or something inactive)":[
        "employ a pen for sketching"
      ],
      ": to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary":[],
      ": to use (something, such as time) advantageously":[
        "a job that employed her skills"
      ],
      ": to use or engage the services of":[],
      ": use , purpose":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The company is accused of employing questionable methods to obtain the contract.",
      "You should find better ways to employ your time.",
      "I had to employ a lawyer to review the contract.",
      "It's a small company, employing a staff of only 20.",
      "Noun",
      "while you're under our employ , you can't do outside work for our competitors",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The Journal works with two sets of polling partners, who employ different methodologies. \u2014 WSJ , 29 June 2022",
      "The former is a technical mechanism the WHO can employ , while the latter is a rhetorical acknowledgement of vast global spread of a disease. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "Also in the first round, Miami faced the Atlanta Hawks, who employ one of the N.B.A.\u2019s best guards in Trae Young. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Our hemp is acquired from American farmers who employ the greatest and safest farming methods. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "Beckham is an unrestricted free agent, and as of Thursday had not announced who will employ him next season, when he is not expected to be available until midseason. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The candidates are both concerned that short-selling shares not only tends to put downward pressure on the market but also hurts retail investors who employ simple strategies that count on stocks rising. \u2014 Youkyung Lee, Bloomberg.com , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "California lawmakers enacted legislation in 2004 that imposes staffing ratios for hospitals and other health care providers who employ nurses. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Trump wanted to destroy governmental institutions; Nixon wanted to employ them to his ends but not to obliterate them. \u2014 David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Pierre Cardin is briefly in the employ of Schiaparelli. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
      "In a letter sent Friday to Democratic City Councilman Eric Costello, the chairman of the council\u2019s Ways and Means Committee that conducts the budget hearing process, Mosby counted 144 prosecutors in her employ . \u2014 Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun , 6 June 2022",
      "Waldman doesn't deny making the statements, but Depp's side argued that even though Waldman was under his employ , Depp was not involved or aware of these remarks. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 1 June 2022",
      "Some private enterprises may be attracted to scrutinizing employees like an intelligence agency might keep tabs on analysts and spies, although employ don\u2019t have access to the same data sources. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Burna Boy\u2019s frequent employ of an a cappella or minimalist arrangement meant the eager attendees could often be heard singing clearly, their voices as sweet as Burna\u2019s smile. \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Angell, who died earlier this month at the age of 101, spent 75 years in the employ of The New Yorker. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
      "Having begun the story before World War I, there's always been the lingering question of what awaits this aristocratic family and those in their employ as the second World War, and the conditions leading to it, come into view. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 20 May 2022",
      "That decision was partially practical: Huffman and Cupp employ staff who understand how to draw maps and have crafted every proposal approved by the Commission or state lawmakers to date. \u2014 Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer , 11 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1679, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emploien , from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier to entangle, apply, make use of, from Latin implicare to enfold, involve, from in- + plicare to fold \u2014 more at ply":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi",
      "\u02c8em-\u02ccpl\u022fi",
      "\u02c8im-\u02ccpl\u022fi"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for employ Verb use , employ , utilize mean to put into service especially to attain an end. use implies availing oneself of something as a means or instrument to an end. willing to use any means to achieve her ends employ suggests the use of a person or thing that is available but idle, inactive, or disengaged. looking for better ways to employ their skills utilize may suggest the discovery of a new, profitable, or practical use for something. an old wooden bucket utilized as a planter",
    "synonyms":[
      "assume",
      "engage",
      "fee",
      "hire",
      "lay on",
      "pay",
      "place",
      "recruit",
      "retain",
      "sign (up ",
      "take on"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231739",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "employment":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": activity in which one engages or is employed":[
        "seeking gainful employment"
      ],
      ": an instance of such activity":[],
      ": the act of employing : the state of being employed":[
        "employment of a pen in sketching"
      ],
      ": the extent or degree to which a labor force is employed":[
        "Employment is high."
      ],
      ": use , purpose":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "laws that have encouraged the employment of women",
      "I've been looking for employment in the machine trade.",
      "The new factory should provide employment for hundreds of workers.",
      "unskilled workers trying to find paid employment",
      "She hopes to find employment as a teacher.",
      "The magazine did well during the course of her employment as editor.",
      "Employment is at an all-time high in this part of the state.",
      "The city is faced with inadequate housing and a lack of employment .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Such consequences include a dearth of employment opportunities and restrictions on travel, Benca said. \u2014 Lara Farrar, Arkansas Online , 24 June 2022",
      "Instead of focusing on names on papers and patents, researchers compared employment records with author lists to find out whose names were missing. \u2014 Elissa Welle, STAT , 23 June 2022",
      "Total employment is still about a million workers below its peak in February 2020. \u2014 William Dunkelberg, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "Chinese authorities say that all employment is voluntary, and that work transfers help free rural families from poverty by giving them steady wages, skills and Chinese-language training. \u2014 New York Times , 20 June 2022",
      "The association\u2019s stats show union employment at the ports is up by more 1,000 jobs, or 7%, since 2008, when the union agreed to greater automation amid the Great Recession\u2019s economic downturn. \u2014 Chris Isidore, CNN , 20 June 2022",
      "Furthermore, because overall employment is much higher than a year ago, overall pay in the U.S. has outpaced price increases. \u2014 Justin Lahart, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
      "But by March 2022, employment in several industries was still below pre-pandemic levels. \u2014 John D. Harden, Washington Post , 24 May 2022",
      "In September 2021, the most recent month for which data was available, employment in the movie theater group was still down nearly 32% over the same month in 2019. \u2014 Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 28 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi-m\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for employment work , employment , occupation , calling , pursuit , m\u00e9tier , business mean a specific sustained activity engaged in especially in earning one's living. work may apply to any purposeful activity whether remunerative or not. her work as a hospital volunteer employment implies work for which one has been engaged and is being paid by an employer. your employment with this firm is hereby terminated occupation implies work in which one engages regularly especially as a result of training. his occupation as a trained auto mechanic calling applies to an occupation viewed as a vocation or profession. the ministry seemed my true calling pursuit suggests a trade, profession, or avocation followed with zeal or steady interest. her family considered medicine the only proper pursuit m\u00e9tier implies a calling or pursuit for which one believes oneself to be especially fitted. acting was my one and only m\u00e9tier business suggests activity in commerce or the management of money and affairs. the business of managing a hotel",
    "synonyms":[
      "application",
      "exercise",
      "operation",
      "play",
      "usage",
      "use"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-123850",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "employment agency":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an agency whose business is to find jobs for people seeking them or to find people to fill jobs that are open":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "He found work as a mechanic through an employment agency .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The new benefits have attracted more than 1 million applications, which the employment agency says are still being assessed. \u2014 Salah Slimani, Bloomberg.com , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Eventually, the employment agency did deliver the long overdue risk assessment to lawmakers. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Her son, John Wesley Coleman, opened an employment agency and later helped his mother develop Coleman Flats, a Boyle Heights apartment building for Black residents, Beasley wrote. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Since then, however, the program and preparations to launch it by January 2023 rarely came up in lawmakers\u2019 check-ins during public meetings with the state employment agency assigned to do that work. \u2014 oregonlive , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Then last year, Activision became embroiled in a lawsuit over workplace harassment brought by a California employment agency , raising questions about its conduct. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "The beer halls are named for an old logger\u2019s union employment agency \u2014 the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen Employment. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Nov. 2021",
      "According to Powell, the center is often mistaken as a temporary employment agency or the unemployment office. \u2014 Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll , 9 Nov. 2021",
      "But Jessica Hiser, marketing director for the employment agency Spherion in Ashland, said job seekers are looking for more than pay. \u2014 Emma Davis, Fortune , 15 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1888, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-102822",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "employment agent":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one that runs an employment agency or as a business finds jobs for those seeking them or people to fill jobs that are open":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1859, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103654",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "employment bureau":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an office (as in a school) that places applicants in jobs or gets and makes available information on job opportunities":[],
      ": employment agency":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1865, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-121123",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empoison":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": embitter":[
        "a look of empoisoned acceptance",
        "\u2014 Saul Bellow"
      ],
      ": poison":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a series of misfortunes had empoisoned him against the whole world"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English empoysonen , from Anglo-French empoisener , from en- + poison poison":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8p\u022fi-z\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "antagonize",
      "embitter",
      "envenom"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205204",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "emporium":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a retail outlet":[
        "a hardware emporium",
        "a pizza emporium"
      ],
      ": a store carrying many different kinds of merchandise":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an emporium for home electronic equipment filled with stuff I didn't know I needed but now desperately want",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Once the height of Atlanta society, then a head-turning zoo exhibit and magic emporium , mental health hospital, a dilapidated ruin, and, most recently, a movie and television set, the Briarcliff Mansion will soon start its next chapter. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 24 June 2022",
      "Billed as Palm Beach\u2019s oldest shop (since 1928), Kassatly\u2019s is an emporium for fine linens, luxurious sleepwear, and classic cashmere. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 19 May 2022",
      "Lavinia is a two-floor wine emporium in Salamanca that has sidewalk tables. \u2014 Christian L. Wright, WSJ , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Their investigation leads them to a rare book emporium , whose owner Ada (Demetria McKinney) takes an interest to the occult and could provide the missing pieces to their puzzle. \u2014 Marc Berman, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Lily et Cie, the vintage emporium frequented by A-list celebrities including Kim Kardashian West, Jennifer Lopez, and Kirsten Dunst for the Oscars. \u2014 Mackenzie Wagoner, Vogue , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Brian drove to five stores looking for ingredients, and not even Canyon Market, the emporium of the obscure, sold buckwheat honey. \u2014 Kevin Fisher-paulson, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "And, true to form with the celebrity sightings that helped to propel the chain\u2019s growth, the sweets emporium and restaurant will launch with star power. \u2014 Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star , 28 Mar. 2022",
      "Bvlgari, which began life as a small jewelry emporium , opened in 1884 by a Greek immigrant just a couple of miles east of the Vatican, has introduced a host of game-changing pieces to the horological canon. \u2014 Nick Scott, Robb Report , 21 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1586, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek emporion , from emporos traveler, trader, from em- en- entry 2 + poros passage, journey \u2014 more at fare":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8p\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bazaar",
      "shop",
      "shoppe",
      "store"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-101641",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empower":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disqualify"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": enable sense 1a":[
        "\u2026 nootropic agents empower the lower amounts of acetylcholine in diseased brains to work overtime \u2026",
        "\u2014 Science News"
      ],
      ": to give official authority or legal power to":[
        "empowered her attorney to act on her behalf"
      ],
      ": to promote the self-actualization or influence of":[
        "The American women's movement has been inspiring and empowering women for nearly 20 years \u2026",
        "\u2014 Ron Hansen",
        "Members of our discipline often envision themselves as agents of social change who try to promote critique of dominant ideologies and empower students to become active participants in the larger political world.",
        "\u2014 Christy Friend"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "seeking changes in the workplace that will empower women",
      "the federal agency empowered to collect taxes",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "All of these campaigns meet the moment, serve our mission \u2014 to empower women and people who menstruate to live their healthiest lives \u2014 and further reinforce our brand. \u2014 Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune , 25 June 2022",
      "When war broke in Ukraine last February 2022, the country\u2019s creative community\u2013along with the rest of the world\u2013sought out ways to inspire, empower , and support those bravely standing at the frontlines. \u2014 Bianca Salonga, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "The libraries aim to empower and transform the lives of people in prison through access to literature and beauty \u2014 providing books housed in handcrafted shelves designed to encourage community in the center of prison housing units. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Each year the Cartier women\u2019s initiative program helps female entrepreneurs reach their potential through programs that empower their businesses and enrich their lives. \u2014 Janelle Okwodu, Vogue , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Distraction, Wu notes, tends to empower the industrialists and demean everyone else. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "This beauty mindset falls in line with Gomez's mission to empower her fans and break down mental health stigmas through Rare Beauty and her nonprofit organization, the Rare Impact Fund. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Elevate, promote, empower and seed from other places. \u2014 Lynn Rosenthal, Rolling Stone , 13 Jan. 2022",
      "As an actor, the pandemic also reminded me of the importance of uplifting emotions during a time of gravity and the power that our films \u2014 regardless of how they are released \u2014 can have to empower and entertain audiences. \u2014 Naman Ramachandran, Variety , 23 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1648, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pau\u0307(-\u0259)r",
      "im-\u02c8pau\u0307-\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "accredit",
      "authorize",
      "certify",
      "charter",
      "commission",
      "enable",
      "invest",
      "license",
      "licence",
      "qualify",
      "vest",
      "warrant"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173357",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "empowered":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having the knowledge, confidence, means, or ability to do things or make decisions for oneself":[
        "\u2026 generations of educated, empowered women are moving into leadership across all sectors \u2026",
        "\u2014 Pat Mitchell",
        "Ultimately, Consumer Reports hopes patients can be more empowered consumers when it comes to their health care.",
        "\u2014 Stephanie Dickrell",
        "\u2026 empowered personnel seek and eliminate the root causes of problems instead of being blamed for them.",
        "\u2014 Ellen Earle Chaffee and Daniel Seymour",
        "Karen felt empowered to address women's issues by the fact that she returned to school after a ten-year hiatus to stay home with her children.",
        "\u2014 Jill Eichhorn",
        "It is not insane to want to feel unafraid and empowered ; it is human.",
        "\u2014 Jody M. Roy"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1983, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pau\u0307(-\u0259)rd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-163357",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "empowerment":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or action of empowering someone or something : the granting of the power, right, or authority to perform various acts or duties":[
        "Malcolm X, the eloquent spokesman for black empowerment who, in 1965, was gunned down at the age of 39 in New York city, continues to influence the political, social, and cultural climate of our society.",
        "\u2014 Joe Wood",
        "Therefore, part of the cure for poverty was empowerment \u2014training the residents of a poor neighborhood to organize themselves and learn to get things from the power structure.",
        "\u2014 Nicholas Lemann"
      ],
      ": the state of being empowered to do something : the power, right, or authority to do something":[
        "Education does not automatically result in women's empowerment , as the social and economic context in which women live can pose overwhelming constraints on their choices.",
        "\u2014 Erin Murphy-Graham",
        "The focus on getting a candidate elected is a way for voters wary of broken promises to gain a sense of empowerment .",
        "\u2014 John Dutton",
        "Amid the uproar, he and his fellow students felt a budding\u2014and maybe false\u2014sense of empowerment .",
        "\u2014 James Graff",
        "Like John Lennon, he brought the idea that through music, empowerment and words, you can really come up with world peace.",
        "\u2014 Wyclef Jean"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1651, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pau\u0307(-\u0259)r-m\u0259nt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "accreditation",
      "authorization",
      "commission",
      "delegation",
      "license",
      "licence",
      "mandate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-162727",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empresario":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who before Texas became part of the U.S. entered into a contract with the Spanish or Mexican government to settle a certain number of families in Texas in exchange for sizable grants of land":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, contractor, manager, probably from Italian impresario":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-s\u0227r-",
      "-ser-",
      "\u02ccempr\u0259\u02c8s\u00e4r\u0113\u02cc\u014d",
      "-sa(a)r-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185750",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empress":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a woman who is the sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire":[],
      ": the wife or widow of an emperor":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the Emperor and Empress of Japan",
      "Catherine the Great was Empress of Russia.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The plans of a widowed Constantinople empress , Arianna, to marry and thus crown a new emperor, Anastasio, are interrupted by an invading rebel army led by Arianna\u2019s jilted lover, the nasty Vitaliano. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
      "The obsession with the empress \u2019 appearance is akin with the obsession with Instagram and celebrity culture. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 May 2022",
      "As both queen and empress , Pahlavi was devoted to social issues, with a strong personal passion for art and culture. \u2014 Cyrill Matter, Town & Country , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "But two weeks after wrapping production on the second season of The Great in Europe, the 23-year-old actress found herself in Savannah, Georgia, last summer, preparing for a role that's a dramatic departure from an 18th-century Russian empress . \u2014 Max Gao, Harper's BAZAAR , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The new season of Hulu's naughty - and mostly not historically accurate - depiction of Catherine the Great's life as empress of 18th century Russia debuts Friday. \u2014 Lisa Respers France, CNN , 19 Nov. 2021",
      "Anya is befriended by two con men, Dmitry and Vlad, who offer to help herto get the reward offered by the dowager empress for returning her granddaughter Anastasia. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Many Russian readers would have seen in this encounter nothing more than a joke at the expense of the simple Cossacks, overawed by the grandeur of the palace and the empress . \u2014 Uilleam Blacker, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "When the book begins, Dee has been appointed Imperial Circuit Supervisor of the Tang Empire\u2014an office bestowed to remove him from the capital, where the judge\u2019s recent pronouncement on imperial succession has sparked the empress \u2019s ire. \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emperice, emperes (with assimilation of the suffix to -esse -ess ), borrowed from Anglo-French emperice, empereis, going back to Late Latin imper\u0101tr\u012bc-, imper\u0101tr\u012bx (Latin, \"female general [used ironically]\"), from Latin imper\u0101re \"to give orders, exercise authority, hold political power\" + -tr\u012bc-, -tr\u012bx, feminine agent suffix \u2014 more at emperor":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em-pr\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115029",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empress tree":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a paulownia ( Paulownia tomentosa )":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "empress entry 1 ; after Anna Pavlovna, after whom the genus Paulownia was named":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-115347",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empressement":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": demonstrative warmth or cordiality":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1709, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from ( s' ) empresser to hurry, from en- + presser to press":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00e4\u207f-pres-\u02c8m\u00e4\u207f"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-105920",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empressite":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral AgTe consisting of telluride of silver":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Empress Josephine mine, Kerber creek district, Colorado + English -ite":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8empr\u0259\u02ccs\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040126",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "emprise":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "he always seems to be having the sort of high emprise that most of us experience only in our dreams"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, undertaking, from Anglo-French, from emprendre to undertake, from Vulgar Latin *imprehendere , from Latin in- + prehendere to seize \u2014 more at get":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-\u02c8pr\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adventure",
      "experience",
      "exploit",
      "gest",
      "geste",
      "happening",
      "time"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183913",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empt":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": empty":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English empten, emptien , from Old English \u01e3mettigian to empty, be at leisure, from \u01e3mtig, \u01e3mettig empty, unoccupied":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em(p)t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190751",
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "emptiness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clear",
      "evacuate",
      "vacate",
      "void"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": containing nothing":[
        "empty shelves"
      ],
      ": deprive , divest":[
        "a phrase emptied of all meaning"
      ],
      ": destitute of effect or force":[
        "an empty threat"
      ],
      ": devoid of sense : foolish":[],
      ": having no purpose or result : useless":[],
      ": hungry":[],
      ": idle":[
        "empty hours"
      ],
      ": lacking reality, substance, meaning, or value : hollow":[
        "an empty pleasure"
      ],
      ": marked by the absence of human life, activity, or comfort":[
        "an empty silence"
      ],
      ": not occupied or inhabited":[
        "an empty building"
      ],
      ": not pregnant":[
        "empty heifer"
      ],
      ": null sense 4a":[
        "the empty set"
      ],
      ": something (such as a bottle or can) that is empty":[],
      ": to become empty":[
        "the theater emptied quickly"
      ],
      ": to discharge (itself) of contents":[],
      ": to discharge contents":[
        "the river empties into the ocean"
      ],
      ": to fire (a repeating firearm) until empty":[],
      ": to make empty : remove the contents of":[
        "empty a purse"
      ],
      ": to remove from what holds or encloses":[],
      ": unfrequented":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The arena was completely empty .",
      "She felt trapped in an empty marriage.",
      "unhappy people leading empty lives",
      "Verb",
      "She emptied the contents of her purse onto the table.",
      "It's your turn to empty the trash.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Another item had also been added to the memorial: an empty tallboy can of Crazy Stallion Classic Lager. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
      "Nothing's off the table and the only thing on it are empty wine glasses. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
      "What was not clear at the time was that this was not an empty exercise. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
      "The empty streets during the pandemic inspired Wedgeworth to look for bike classes. \u2014 Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "The exodus is leaving behind empty streets and a silence that amplifies the dull thump of artillery exchanges just outside city limits. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
      "Today, Buffalo\u2019s East Side is a shell of its former self, with vacant storefronts and empty homes. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
      "These pictures captured the starkness of the countryside; rusting cars, broken down barns and empty homes set against dark hued backdrops. \u2014 John Canale, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
      "In Kharkiv, the men found a ghost town, where monuments and churches kept watch over empty streets. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Once swim time is over, just use the convenient drain plug to empty out the pool water and deflate. \u2014 Joe Morales, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
      "About a day or two later, the patient takes the second medication, misoprostol, which spurs cramping and bleeding to empty the uterus. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 23 May 2022",
      "Thanks to its smart design, ashes fall into a bucket at hopper's base, and cleanup is as easy as opening the door to empty it. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 5 May 2022",
      "Still, the new toilets fill up so quickly that rangers have to empty them once or twice a week during the summer. \u2014 Krista Langlois, Outside Online , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "The cons: This vacuum doesn't have a big canister, so our testers had to empty it much more often than competing devices. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "As the older Hern\u00e1n shares a draft of his hallucination-stirring home brew and speaks about his own personal history, Jessica seems to empty herself out. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The vacuum, which is initially available through iRobot's website, costs $850 (or $650 if bought without a base that the vacuum can automatically empty dirt into). \u2014 Rachel Metz, CNN , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "Build reservoirs in flood-prone areas with drainage systems to empty into them, then have the water transported to the drought-prone areas. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 2 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The change resulted from an intersection of migration with births and deaths, since the county draws retirees and empty -nesters, while young adults who want to have children move elsewhere, mostly for better schools, Smith said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 6 June 2022",
      "Kevin Shattenkirk and Vinni Lettieri had a goal and an assist apiece, and Nicolas Deslauriers added a short-handed empty -netter for the Ducks with 7:37 to play. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "The entire region is a buyer\u2019s market, burdened by other big empties . \u2014 At A Great Price, ProPublica , 18 May 2020",
      "The horses are saddled in the paddock in two shifts, and at least one stall is kept empty between horses. \u2014 Joe Drape, New York Times , 12 May 2020",
      "Coronavirus empties pediatrician offices in Michigan, decreases vaccinations As COVID-19 continues to churn through southeast Michigan and elsewhere, wary parents are avoiding health care settings. \u2014 Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press , 28 Apr. 2020",
      "More than Christmas or New Year\u2019s Day, more than Easter week, when the city empties out. \u2014 Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books , 29 Mar. 2020",
      "Heiskanen\u2019s goal came with the Stars\u2019 net empty and was his first since Dec. 3, a stretch of 33 games. \u2014 Matthew Defranks, Dallas News , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Days, even weeks, in a tent or a bivouac, the hours empty of all but numbing chores and the howling of the wind. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English \u01e3mettig unoccupied, from \u01e3metta leisure, perhaps from \u01e3- without + -metta (probably akin to m\u014dtan to have to) \u2014 more at must":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8emp-t\u0113",
      "\u02c8em(p)-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for empty Adjective empty , vacant , blank , void , vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents. an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants. a vacant apartment blank stresses the absence of any significant, relieving, or intelligible features on a surface. a blank wall void suggests absolute emptiness as far as the mind or senses can determine. a statement void of meaning vacuous suggests the emptiness of a vacuum and especially the lack of intelligence or significance. a vacuous facial expression synonyms see in addition vain",
    "synonyms":[
      "bare",
      "blank",
      "clean",
      "devoid",
      "stark",
      "toom",
      "vacant",
      "vacuous",
      "void"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-195213",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "emptins":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a liquid leavening usually made at home from potatoes or hops and kept from one baking to the next":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "alteration of emptyings , plural of emptying , from gerund of empty entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em(p)t\u0259\u0307nz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-010042",
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ]
  },
  "emptio-venditio":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the consensual contract between two parties for the purchase of something by one party and its sale by the other at an agreed price":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin emptio et venditio buying and selling":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em(p)t\u0113\u02cc\u014d\u02ccwen\u02c8dit\u0113\u02cc\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001546",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "emption":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": right of emption":[],
      ": the act of buying : purchase":[
        "relieved both of the emption of stuffs and of the payment of tailors and property-makers",
        "\u2014 E. K. Chambers"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin emption-, emptio , from emptus (past participle of emere to buy) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em(p)sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204532",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "emptor":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": purchaser , buyer":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from emptus + -or":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02cct\u022f(\u0259)r",
      "\u02c8em(p)t\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073114",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "empty":{
    "antonyms":[
      "clear",
      "evacuate",
      "vacate",
      "void"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": containing nothing":[
        "empty shelves"
      ],
      ": deprive , divest":[
        "a phrase emptied of all meaning"
      ],
      ": destitute of effect or force":[
        "an empty threat"
      ],
      ": devoid of sense : foolish":[],
      ": having no purpose or result : useless":[],
      ": hungry":[],
      ": idle":[
        "empty hours"
      ],
      ": lacking reality, substance, meaning, or value : hollow":[
        "an empty pleasure"
      ],
      ": marked by the absence of human life, activity, or comfort":[
        "an empty silence"
      ],
      ": not occupied or inhabited":[
        "an empty building"
      ],
      ": not pregnant":[
        "empty heifer"
      ],
      ": null sense 4a":[
        "the empty set"
      ],
      ": something (such as a bottle or can) that is empty":[],
      ": to become empty":[
        "the theater emptied quickly"
      ],
      ": to discharge (itself) of contents":[],
      ": to discharge contents":[
        "the river empties into the ocean"
      ],
      ": to fire (a repeating firearm) until empty":[],
      ": to make empty : remove the contents of":[
        "empty a purse"
      ],
      ": to remove from what holds or encloses":[],
      ": unfrequented":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "The arena was completely empty .",
      "She felt trapped in an empty marriage.",
      "unhappy people leading empty lives",
      "Verb",
      "She emptied the contents of her purse onto the table.",
      "It's your turn to empty the trash.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Another item had also been added to the memorial: an empty tallboy can of Crazy Stallion Classic Lager. \u2014 Eric Lach, The New Yorker , 23 June 2022",
      "Nothing's off the table and the only thing on it are empty wine glasses. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 23 June 2022",
      "What was not clear at the time was that this was not an empty exercise. \u2014 Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
      "The empty streets during the pandemic inspired Wedgeworth to look for bike classes. \u2014 Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
      "The exodus is leaving behind empty streets and a silence that amplifies the dull thump of artillery exchanges just outside city limits. \u2014 Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ , 8 June 2022",
      "Today, Buffalo\u2019s East Side is a shell of its former self, with vacant storefronts and empty homes. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
      "These pictures captured the starkness of the countryside; rusting cars, broken down barns and empty homes set against dark hued backdrops. \u2014 John Canale, cleveland , 23 May 2022",
      "In Kharkiv, the men found a ghost town, where monuments and churches kept watch over empty streets. \u2014 New York Times , 19 May 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Once swim time is over, just use the convenient drain plug to empty out the pool water and deflate. \u2014 Joe Morales, Good Housekeeping , 22 June 2022",
      "About a day or two later, the patient takes the second medication, misoprostol, which spurs cramping and bleeding to empty the uterus. \u2014 Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune , 23 May 2022",
      "Thanks to its smart design, ashes fall into a bucket at hopper's base, and cleanup is as easy as opening the door to empty it. \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 5 May 2022",
      "Still, the new toilets fill up so quickly that rangers have to empty them once or twice a week during the summer. \u2014 Krista Langlois, Outside Online , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "The cons: This vacuum doesn't have a big canister, so our testers had to empty it much more often than competing devices. \u2014 Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "As the older Hern\u00e1n shares a draft of his hallucination-stirring home brew and speaks about his own personal history, Jessica seems to empty herself out. \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "The vacuum, which is initially available through iRobot's website, costs $850 (or $650 if bought without a base that the vacuum can automatically empty dirt into). \u2014 Rachel Metz, CNN , 9 Sep. 2021",
      "Build reservoirs in flood-prone areas with drainage systems to empty into them, then have the water transported to the drought-prone areas. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 2 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "The change resulted from an intersection of migration with births and deaths, since the county draws retirees and empty -nesters, while young adults who want to have children move elsewhere, mostly for better schools, Smith said. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 6 June 2022",
      "Kevin Shattenkirk and Vinni Lettieri had a goal and an assist apiece, and Nicolas Deslauriers added a short-handed empty -netter for the Ducks with 7:37 to play. \u2014 orlandosentinel.com , 22 Jan. 2022",
      "The entire region is a buyer\u2019s market, burdened by other big empties . \u2014 At A Great Price, ProPublica , 18 May 2020",
      "The horses are saddled in the paddock in two shifts, and at least one stall is kept empty between horses. \u2014 Joe Drape, New York Times , 12 May 2020",
      "Coronavirus empties pediatrician offices in Michigan, decreases vaccinations As COVID-19 continues to churn through southeast Michigan and elsewhere, wary parents are avoiding health care settings. \u2014 Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press , 28 Apr. 2020",
      "More than Christmas or New Year\u2019s Day, more than Easter week, when the city empties out. \u2014 Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books , 29 Mar. 2020",
      "Heiskanen\u2019s goal came with the Stars\u2019 net empty and was his first since Dec. 3, a stretch of 33 games. \u2014 Matthew Defranks, Dallas News , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Days, even weeks, in a tent or a bivouac, the hours empty of all but numbing chores and the howling of the wind. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English \u01e3mettig unoccupied, from \u01e3metta leisure, perhaps from \u01e3- without + -metta (probably akin to m\u014dtan to have to) \u2014 more at must":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8emp-t\u0113",
      "\u02c8em(p)-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for empty Adjective empty , vacant , blank , void , vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents. an empty bucket vacant suggests an absence of appropriate contents or occupants. a vacant apartment blank stresses the absence of any significant, relieving, or intelligible features on a surface. a blank wall void suggests absolute emptiness as far as the mind or senses can determine. a statement void of meaning vacuous suggests the emptiness of a vacuum and especially the lack of intelligence or significance. a vacuous facial expression synonyms see in addition vain",
    "synonyms":[
      "bare",
      "blank",
      "clean",
      "devoid",
      "stark",
      "toom",
      "vacant",
      "vacuous",
      "void"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-183606",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "empty-headed":{
    "antonyms":[
      "apt",
      "brainy",
      "bright",
      "brilliant",
      "clever",
      "fast",
      "hyperintelligent",
      "intelligent",
      "keen",
      "nimble",
      "quick",
      "quick-witted",
      "sharp",
      "sharp-witted",
      "smart",
      "supersmart",
      "ultrasmart"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": vacuous sense 2":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1640, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccem(p)-t\u0113-\u02c8he-d\u0259d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "airheaded",
      "birdbrained",
      "bonehead",
      "boneheaded",
      "brain-dead",
      "brainless",
      "bubbleheaded",
      "chuckleheaded",
      "dense",
      "dim",
      "dim-witted",
      "doltish",
      "dopey",
      "dopy",
      "dorky",
      "dull",
      "dumb",
      "dunderheaded",
      "fatuous",
      "gormless",
      "half-witted",
      "knuckleheaded",
      "lamebrain",
      "lamebrained",
      "lunkheaded",
      "mindless",
      "oafish",
      "obtuse",
      "opaque",
      "pinheaded",
      "senseless",
      "simple",
      "slow",
      "slow-witted",
      "soft",
      "softheaded",
      "stupid",
      "thick",
      "thick-witted",
      "thickheaded",
      "unintelligent",
      "unsmart",
      "vacuous",
      "weak-minded",
      "witless"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-040033",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "empyreal":{
    "antonyms":[
      "chthonic",
      "chthonian",
      "hellish",
      "infernal",
      "plutonian",
      "sulfurous",
      "Tartarean"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to the empyrean : celestial":[],
      ": sublime":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a painting depicting the Deity as seated on an empyreal throne surrounded by saints and angels"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin empyrius, empyreus , from Late Greek empyrios , from Greek em- en- entry 2 + pyr fire":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccem-\u02ccp\u012b-\u02c8r\u0113-\u0259l",
      "-\u02c8p\u012b-r\u0113-",
      "-p\u0259-",
      "em-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "celestial",
      "elysian",
      "empyrean",
      "ethereal",
      "heavenly",
      "supernal"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050009",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "empyrean":{
    "antonyms":[
      "above",
      "bliss",
      "elysian fields",
      "Elysium",
      "heaven",
      "kingdom come",
      "New Jerusalem",
      "paradise",
      "sky",
      "Zion",
      "Sion"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ideal place or state":[],
      ": empyreal":[],
      ": firmament , heavens":[],
      ": the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light":[],
      ": the true and ultimate heavenly paradise":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "movie scenes set in heaven often suggest that harps are the favored instruments for empyrean music",
      "Noun",
      "ascended into the empyrean after a life filled with good deeds",
      "most ticket buyers have no trouble envisioning the empyrean that winning the lottery would inevitably bring about",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "At their best, Harjo\u2019s poems inform each other, linking her different modes, facilitating her tendency to zoom from a personal experience to a more empyrean one. \u2014 Maya Phillips, The New Yorker , 29 Aug. 2019",
      "Louis leaves Prior, drawing the first line in a pattern of abandonment that informs the entire play, and finally stretches all the way into the empyrean kingdom of an absent God. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 25 Mar. 2018",
      "Our badges looked different, we were afforded fewer privileges, and we were certainly kept in the dark about The Algorithm (pause for heavenly-choir noise effect) and other such empyrean secrets. \u2014 Lucas Peterson, GQ , 22 May 2017",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "O\u2019Keeffe places the viewer aloft, level with the bone, high up in the empyrean . \u2014 Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker , 11 Oct. 2021",
      "Unfortunately, for those who see Mr. Donnelly\u2019s empyrean status less as the result of an Immaculate Kawnception and more as another harbinger of Artistic Kawpocalypse, the show will do little to change previous conceptions about him or his art. \u2014 Brian P. Kelly, WSJ , 6 Mar. 2021",
      "That could quickly propel a few black schools into the athletic empyrean , and change the place of HBCUs in American culture. \u2014 Jemele Hill, The Atlantic , 5 Sep. 2019",
      "Grahm reaches for the empyrean , and Locke brings him back to earth, a table full of wine bottles between them. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 14 May 2018",
      "Grahm reaches for the empyrean , and Locke brings him back to earth, a table full of wine bottles between them. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 14 May 2018",
      "But even in the empyrean reaches of premium cable, Shondaland has a voice. \u2014 Wesley Morris And James Poniewozik, New York Times , 10 Feb. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective",
      "1667, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8p\u012b-r\u0113-",
      "em-\u02c8pir-\u0113-\u0259n",
      "\u02ccem-\u02ccp\u012b-\u02c8r\u0113-\u0259n",
      "-p\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "celestial",
      "elysian",
      "empyreal",
      "ethereal",
      "heavenly",
      "supernal"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000606",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "employment certificate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an authorization issued by school authorities for a child of school age to work at a job paying wages or salary":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142856"
  },
  "employing":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to make use of (someone or something inactive)":[
        "employ a pen for sketching"
      ],
      ": to use (something, such as time) advantageously":[
        "a job that employed her skills"
      ],
      ": to use or engage the services of":[],
      ": to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary":[],
      ": to devote to or direct toward a particular activity or person":[
        "employed all her energies to help the poor"
      ],
      ": use , purpose":[],
      ": occupation , job":[],
      ": the state of being employed":[
        "in the city's employ"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8em-\u02ccpl\u022fi",
      "\u02c8im-\u02ccpl\u022fi",
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "assume",
      "engage",
      "fee",
      "hire",
      "lay on",
      "pay",
      "place",
      "recruit",
      "retain",
      "sign (up ",
      "take on"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "employment",
      "engagement",
      "hire"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for employ Verb use , employ , utilize mean to put into service especially to attain an end. use implies availing oneself of something as a means or instrument to an end. willing to use any means to achieve her ends employ suggests the use of a person or thing that is available but idle, inactive, or disengaged. looking for better ways to employ their skills utilize may suggest the discovery of a new, profitable, or practical use for something. an old wooden bucket utilized as a planter",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The company is accused of employing questionable methods to obtain the contract.",
      "You should find better ways to employ your time.",
      "I had to employ a lawyer to review the contract.",
      "It's a small company, employing a staff of only 20.",
      "Noun",
      "while you're under our employ , you can't do outside work for our competitors",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "The Journal works with two sets of polling partners, who employ different methodologies. \u2014 WSJ , 29 June 2022",
      "The former is a technical mechanism the WHO can employ , while the latter is a rhetorical acknowledgement of vast global spread of a disease. \u2014 Andrew Joseph, STAT , 28 June 2022",
      "Also in the first round, Miami faced the Atlanta Hawks, who employ one of the N.B.A.\u2019s best guards in Trae Young. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Our hemp is acquired from American farmers who employ the greatest and safest farming methods. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "Beckham is an unrestricted free agent, and as of Thursday had not announced who will employ him next season, when he is not expected to be available until midseason. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "The candidates are both concerned that short-selling shares not only tends to put downward pressure on the market but also hurts retail investors who employ simple strategies that count on stocks rising. \u2014 Youkyung Lee, Bloomberg.com , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "California lawmakers enacted legislation in 2004 that imposes staffing ratios for hospitals and other health care providers who employ nurses. \u2014 Patrick Gleason, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Trump wanted to destroy governmental institutions; Nixon wanted to employ them to his ends but not to obliterate them. \u2014 David M. Shribman, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Pierre Cardin is briefly in the employ of Schiaparelli. \u2014 Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue , 1 July 2022",
      "In a letter sent Friday to Democratic City Councilman Eric Costello, the chairman of the council\u2019s Ways and Means Committee that conducts the budget hearing process, Mosby counted 144 prosecutors in her employ . \u2014 Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun , 6 June 2022",
      "Waldman doesn't deny making the statements, but Depp's side argued that even though Waldman was under his employ , Depp was not involved or aware of these remarks. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 1 June 2022",
      "Some private enterprises may be attracted to scrutinizing employees like an intelligence agency might keep tabs on analysts and spies, although employ don\u2019t have access to the same data sources. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, New York Times , 17 May 2022",
      "Burna Boy\u2019s frequent employ of an a cappella or minimalist arrangement meant the eager attendees could often be heard singing clearly, their voices as sweet as Burna\u2019s smile. \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Angell, who died earlier this month at the age of 101, spent 75 years in the employ of The New Yorker. \u2014 Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
      "Having begun the story before World War I, there's always been the lingering question of what awaits this aristocratic family and those in their employ as the second World War, and the conditions leading to it, come into view. \u2014 Brian Lowry, CNN , 20 May 2022",
      "That decision was partially practical: Huffman and Cupp employ staff who understand how to draw maps and have crafted every proposal approved by the Commission or state lawmakers to date. \u2014 Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer , 11 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English emploien , from Anglo-French empleier, emploier, emplier to entangle, apply, make use of, from Latin implicare to enfold, involve, from in- + plicare to fold \u2014 more at ply":"Verb"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1679, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143412"
  },
  "employment exchange":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of the offices established in England for the collection of labor statistics, for the placing of employees, and for handling part of the system of unemployment insurance":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1867, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145909"
  },
  "empirical formula":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a chemical formula showing the simplest ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms in the molecule":[
        "CH 2 O is the empirical formula for glucose"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In 1973 Carl Sagan devised a more empirical formula for Kardashev\u2019s scale that allowed for finer gradations. \u2014 Lee Billings, Scientific American , 17 Apr. 2015"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1837, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-153808"
  },
  "empty suit":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ineffectual executive":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Plenty of Ronald Reagan, empty suit performative kind of stuff. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "Trump\u2019s team has tried to paint Biden as an empty suit trying to disguise the threat of socialism. \u2014 Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review , 29 Sep. 2020",
      "When Lukashenko first rose to power in 1994, the budding autocrat was perceived as little more than a dolt, an empty suit , a pig farmer who few in Minsk\u2019s political ranks took seriously. \u2014 Casey Michel, The New Republic , 10 Aug. 2020",
      "In the iconic drama that ran on CBS between 1957 and 1966, Raymond Burr\u2019s broad shoulders filled out the empty suit . \u2014 Judy Berman, Time , 11 June 2020",
      "Only Scott, standing alone up front beside the championship-game trophy, an empty suit spitting mostly hollow words. \u2014 John Canzano | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 9 Dec. 2019",
      "One user from the Jacksonville, Florida, area shared a video of an empty suit in a chair reserved for the local house representative. \u2014 Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue , 9 Apr. 2018",
      "When Emmanuel Macron ran for president of France, his critics dismissed him as an empty suit who didn\u2019t stand a chance. \u2014 Simon Nixon, WSJ , 10 Sep. 2017",
      "Well, over the weekend, the kitty came screeching out of the burlap thanks to obvious anagram Reince Priebus, the emptiest suit in American politics. \u2014 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire , 11 Mar. 2014"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1950, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181349"
  },
  "empirically":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an empirical manner : with a basis in or reliance on information obtained through observation, experiment, or experience":[
        "a theory that has not yet been tested empirically",
        "\u2026 using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically.",
        "\u2014 Charles Krauthammer",
        "The statistical models were flawed, the defense maintained, noting that none had been empirically tested.",
        "\u2014 Simon Cole"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "em-",
      "im-\u02c8pir-i-k(\u0259-)l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1646, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202242"
  },
  "emphatic state":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the state or form of a noun in Syriac and Aramaic that makes it determinate or definite \u2014 compare absolute state , construct state":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1824, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213226"
  },
  "empirical truth":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": exact conformity as learned by observation or experiment between judgments or propositions and externally existent things in their actual status and relations":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-231807"
  },
  "empleomania":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mania for holding public office":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccempl\u0113\u014d\u02c8m\u0101n\u0113\u0259",
      "em\u02ccpl\u0113\u0259\u02c8-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish empleoman\u00eda , from empleo employment, use, public office (from emplear to employ, use, from Old Spanish, from Old French empleoir, emploiier ) + -man\u00eda (from New Latin -mania )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1845, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010421"
  },
  "employers' association":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an organization of owners of business or manufacturing enterprises employing personnel or of their agents for the purpose of concerted action (as in labor negotiations)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010639"
  },
  "employment history":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a record of jobs that a worker has had":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014042"
  },
  "employer's liability insurance":{
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      "noun"
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      ": insurance against loss an employer may suffer from his common-law liability for injury to an employee excluding liability imposed by a workmen's compensation act":[]
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      ": attracting special attention":[],
      ": constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something":[]
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      ": the practice of relying on observation and experiment especially in the natural sciences":[],
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      ": a theory that all knowledge originates in experience":[]
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      "im-\u02c8pir-\u0259-\u02ccsiz-\u0259m, em-",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Read her full interview here: on hard-nosed empiricism and optimizing interventions. \u2014 Aline Holzwarth, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
      "This view has influenced thinking in Christian and Persian philosophies, British empiricism and Marxist doctrine. \u2014 Gy\u00f6rgy Buzs\u00e1ki, Scientific American , 14 May 2022",
      "The exhibition begins in 1780, a bit of an arbitrary date, because the Enlightenment attends to religion, a staple of art, but also, and this is new, to nature, science, and empiricism . \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Other scholars have pointed out that feminist standpoint theory is helpful in understanding white empiricism and who is eligible to be a worthy observer of the human condition and our world. \u2014 Monica R. Mclemore, Scientific American , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "As Cheyne notes in his essay: The British empiricism of John Locke, David Hume and David Hartley was itself at odds, Coleridge pointed out, with a deeper heritage of British thought. \u2014 Cameron Hilditch, National Review , 23 Apr. 2021",
      "An alternative conclusion\u2014richer in possibilities, in my opinion\u2014is that scientific thought in recent decades invites us to reject empiricism and to endorse a broader epistemology. \u2014 WSJ , 3 Oct. 2021",
      "Milton Friedman, whose empiricism led him to embrace free-market public policy, was the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 8 May 2021",
      "The same empiricism led him to keep urging Virgin Galactic engineers not to be spooked by the past. \u2014 Anna Russel, The New Yorker , 3 Aug. 2021"
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      "empiric + -ism":""
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      "1658, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
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      "combining form"
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      ": experience : experiment":[
        "empirio genic",
        "empirio symbolist"
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      "empirio- from German, from Greek empeiria experience (from empeiros experienced + -ia -y) + German -o-; empirico- from empiric , adjective + -o-":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065123"
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Other contestants jogged enthusiastically into the ring last year; Wasabi was carried in Fitzpatrick\u2019s arms, entitled as an emperor . \u2014 New York Times , 21 June 2022",
      "Peter dramatically expanded the contours of his rule, turning Russia into an empire and declaring himself an emperor . \u2014 Amy Cheng, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
      "Peter dramatically expanded the contours of his rule, turning Russia into an empire and declaring himself an emperor . \u2014 Amy Cheng And Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News , 10 June 2022",
      "The band represents the life\u2019s mission of one man: 75-year-old cofounder Robert Fripp, the composer/guitarist/autocrat who dresses like a valet and rules like an emperor . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "Last week, Meituan shed $26 billion of value over two days after its boss, Wang Xing, posted obscure verses from a millennium-old poem about China\u2019s first emperor \u2019s misguided efforts to stifle dissent. \u2014 Time , 20 May 2021",
      "Everyone would see that the emperor has no clothes. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "But the media can be equally slow to recognize that the emperor has no clothes. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 24 May 2022",
      "It was made for the court of the Qianlong Emperor -- the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty -- and would have been crafted using innovative heating techniques to achieve its blue, gold and silver coloring, Dreweatts added. \u2014 Sana Noor Haq, CNN , 18 May 2022"
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      "Middle English emperour, borrowed from Anglo-French empereor, amperour, going back to Latin imper\u0101t\u014dr-, imper\u0101tor \"person giving orders, commanding officer, title of honor bestowed on a victorious general by his troops, title conferred by the Roman senate on Julius Caesar and Augustus and adopted by later successors,\" from imper\u0101re \"to demand the production of, levy, give orders, exercise authority, hold political power\" (from im- in- entry 2 + par\u0101re \"to supply, provide, make ready\") + -t\u014dr-, -tor, agent suffix \u2014 more at pare":""
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      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070108"
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      "noun"
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      "\u02ccem(p)f\u0259\u02c8t\u00fcs\u0259\u0307s",
      "-f\u0259\u2027\u02c8ty\u00fc-"
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      "Late Latin, from Late Greek, from Greek emphyteuein to implant (from em- en- entry 2 + phyteuein to plant, from phyton plant) + -sis":""
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      "circa 1618, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073032"
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      "transitive verb"
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      ": populate , people":[]
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      "en- entry 1 + people (noun)":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075305"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": of, relating to, or advocating empiriocriticism":[]
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      "\u0259\u0307m\u00a6pir\u0113(\u02cc)\u014d",
      "em-+"
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      "empirio- + critical":""
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      "1925, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075710"
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      "noun"
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      ": one employed by another usually for wages or salary and in a position below the executive level":[]
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      "im-\u02ccpl\u022f(i)-\u02c8\u0113",
      "(\u02cc)em-",
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022f(i)-\u02cc\u0113",
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      "em-"
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      "jobholder",
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      "worker"
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      "A good boss listens to his employees .",
      "The company has more than 2,000 employees worldwide.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Scott Capps, a former employee of Vanguard, an investment management company, cleverly used his position to defraud the company and the state. \u2014 Benjamin Chou, Forbes , 6 July 2022",
      "An employee of a store in the area, said dark clouds appeared to pass directly over a Harris-Teeter supermarket there as structural debris flew into the air. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 5 July 2022",
      "That way, says a former employee familiar with company finances, X-rays could force insurers to approve procedures for upward of $1,000. \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 2 July 2022",
      "Atlanta City Council is considering the approval of a settlement to dismiss a 40-page complaint filed in February by former city employee Michelle Anderson. \u2014 Wilborn Nobles, ajc , 30 June 2022",
      "Former White House employee Cassidy Hutchinson dropped quite a few bombshells on ex-President Donald Trump during her high-profile congressional testimony Tuesday. \u2014 David Jackson, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
      "Daniel Gill, 39, an employee of the ShopRite, was initially charged with second-degree assault. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
      "An employee of Whitehaven Cemetery said June 27 that a woman often calls the business and comes in and stays late into the evenings. \u2014 cleveland , 29 June 2022",
      "Avery claimed an employee of Bolding had written at least six checks for a job a different company was working on. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 29 June 2022"
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-105021"
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      "noun"
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      ": a grayish or white metallic-looking mineral consisting of a compound of copper, bismuth, and sulfur CuBiS 2 occurring in thin prisms":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u0307m\u02c8plek\u02cct\u012bt",
      "em-"
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    "examples":[],
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      "German emplektit , from Greek emplektos inwoven + German -it -ite":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120101"
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      "noun"
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      "\u02ccem(p)-f\u0259-\u02c8z\u0113-m\u0259",
      "-\u02c8s\u0113-",
      "-\u02c8s\u0113-m\u0259",
      "\u02ccem-f\u0259-\u02c8z\u0113-m\u0259"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Young children, the elderly and others who have respiratory issues \u2014 such as asthma, bronchitis or emphysema \u2014 are more vulnerable to ozone\u2019s effects. \u2014 Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News , 6 Oct. 2021",
      "Joan suffered from emphysema and moved about the house on a motorized scooter, hooked up to a tank of oxygen. \u2014 Cullen Murphy, Vanities , 9 Aug. 2017",
      "People with asthma, emphysema and other lung ailments should keep necessary and recommended medications at hand. \u2014 Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times , 3 Aug. 2017",
      "Long-term exposure to polluted air can cause decreased lung function, as well as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema , and possibly cancer. \u2014 Cincinnati.com , 2 Aug. 2017",
      "The fawn was transported to the Star Foundation, a wildlife sanctuary and rehabilitation center, where it is currently being treated for subcutaneous emphysema , a condition in which air gets trapped under the skin. \u2014 Lindsey Bever, chicagotribune.com , 18 July 2017",
      "In addition to preventing lung diseases including cancer, emphysema , and chronic breathing problems, smoking increases your risk of colorectal cancer, which is more common in men. \u2014 George James, Philly.com , 16 June 2017"
    ],
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      "New Latin, from Greek emphys\u0113ma , from emphysan to inflate, from em- en- entry 2 + physan to blow, from physa breath \u2014 more at pustule":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1587, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143728"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the tail assembly of an aircraft":[]
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      "\u02ccem-",
      "\u02cc\u00e4m-p\u0259-\u02c8n\u00e4zh"
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The main wreckage was about 127 feet from the impact crater along a 347\u2070 true bearing (335\u2070 magnetic) and consisted of the empennage /tailboom, both engines, avionics boxes, and portions of the cockpit instrument panel. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Feb. 2020",
      "The empennage , elevator, and rudder remained intact. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 Oct. 2019",
      "The fuselage has been slightly widened behind the wing to keep airflow attached to the empennage (that is, the collective tail assembly). \u2014 Eric Tegler, Ars Technica , 30 Aug. 2018",
      "What America got with the A-10 was a single-seat, low-wing, straight-wing aircraft with two non-afterburning turbofan engines mounted high\u2014behind the wing and in front of an empennage with twin vertical stabilizers. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics , 19 Nov. 2016"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, feathers of an arrow, empennage, from empenner to feather an arrow, from em- en- entry 1 + penne feather, from Middle French \u2014 more at pen":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1908, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143950"
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    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
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      ": empty":[
        "empty out the water barrel to clear it of sediment",
        "empty a boat out by beaching it and turning it over"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151516"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one employed by another usually for wages or salary and in a position below the executive level":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02ccpl\u022fi-\u02c8\u0113",
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022f(i)-\u02cc\u0113",
      "em-",
      "im-\u02ccpl\u022f(i)-\u02c8\u0113",
      "(\u02cc)em-"
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      "hireling",
      "jobholder",
      "retainer",
      "worker"
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      "gaffer"
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      "A good boss listens to his employees .",
      "The company has more than 2,000 employees worldwide.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Scott Capps, a former employee of Vanguard, an investment management company, cleverly used his position to defraud the company and the state. \u2014 Benjamin Chou, Forbes , 6 July 2022",
      "An employee of a store in the area, said dark clouds appeared to pass directly over a Harris-Teeter supermarket there as structural debris flew into the air. \u2014 Martin Weil, Washington Post , 5 July 2022",
      "That way, says a former employee familiar with company finances, X-rays could force insurers to approve procedures for upward of $1,000. \u2014 Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone , 2 July 2022",
      "Atlanta City Council is considering the approval of a settlement to dismiss a 40-page complaint filed in February by former city employee Michelle Anderson. \u2014 Wilborn Nobles, ajc , 30 June 2022",
      "Former White House employee Cassidy Hutchinson dropped quite a few bombshells on ex-President Donald Trump during her high-profile congressional testimony Tuesday. \u2014 David Jackson, USA TODAY , 30 June 2022",
      "Daniel Gill, 39, an employee of the ShopRite, was initially charged with second-degree assault. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 29 June 2022",
      "An employee of Whitehaven Cemetery said June 27 that a woman often calls the business and comes in and stays late into the evenings. \u2014 cleveland , 29 June 2022",
      "Avery claimed an employee of Bolding had written at least six checks for a job a different company was working on. \u2014 Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online , 29 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173229"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": pintid":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "em\u02c8p\u0101(\u02cc)n\u0101"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Mexican Spanish, from Spanish, impetigo, from Medieval Latin impedigin-, impedigo , alteration of Latin impetigin-, impetigo":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-191606"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a threat that someone does not really mean":[
        "Don't make empty threats that you have no intention of backing up with action.",
        "\u2026 the Witch of the West looks, in this scene anyhow, curiously frail and impotent, obliged to mouth empty threats \u2026",
        "\u2014 Salman Rushdie"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194246"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": the weight of the structure, power plant, and fixed equipment of an airplane in flying condition":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204030"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": blackleg sense 1":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210239"
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      "noun"
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      ": a scientifically oriented phenomenalistic form of empiricism that endeavors to reduce knowledge to a description of pure experience and eliminate all aspects of apriorism, metaphysics, and dualism":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "partial translation of German empiriokritizismus , from empirio- + kritizismus criticism":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1897, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211410"
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      "noun"
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      ": function word":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1854, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212434"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a Central American boa ( Constrictor constrictor imperator )":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214824"
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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      ": emphasizing or based on procedures that are both logical and empirical (such as those employing mathematics and experiments)":[
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\"+"
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French empiriologique , from empirio- + logique logical, from Latin logicus":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223015"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": one holding land by emphyteusis":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u00fct\u0259"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin, from Late Greek emphyteut\u0113s , from Greek emphyteuein":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1660, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002406"
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      "idiom"
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      ": to take out everything in one's pockets":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014508"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "im-\u02c8pl\u022fi-\u0259r",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1595, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025215"
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