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"forms": [
{
"form": "settles for",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "settling for",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "settled for",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "settled for",
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"past"
]
}
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},
"expansion": "settle for (third-person singular simple present settles for, present participle settling for, simple past and past participle settled for)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
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},
{
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"parents": [],
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},
{
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"name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [
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],
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}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower-quality set."
},
{
"ref": "2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC",
"text": "As the game entered three minutes of stoppage time, both sides almost snatched the win. Substitute Admir Mehmedi was inches away with Hart beaten and Stewart Downing, on for Walcott, shot weakly into the side-netting with the last kick of the game as England had to settle for a point.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable."
],
"id": "en-settle_for-en-verb-8u5disZ2",
"links": [
[
"accept",
"accept"
],
[
"allow",
"allow"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive) To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "with",
"word": "make do"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "tyytyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "sich mit etwas zufriedengeben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "megelégszik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "beéri"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "accontentarsi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obywać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "obyć się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ograniczać się do"
},
{
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ograniczyć się do"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poprzestawać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poprzestać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
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"word": "przestawać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zadowalać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zadowolić się"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"pronominal"
],
"word": "conformar"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/En-au-settle_for.ogg/En-au-settle_for.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/En-au-settle_for.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "settle for"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "settles for",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "settling for",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "settled for",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "settled for",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (for)",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He couldn't afford the expensive headphones, so he decided to settle for the lower-quality set."
},
{
"ref": "2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2 - 2 Switzerland”, in BBC",
"text": "As the game entered three minutes of stoppage time, both sides almost snatched the win. Substitute Admir Mehmedi was inches away with Hart beaten and Stewart Downing, on for Walcott, shot weakly into the side-netting with the last kick of the game as England had to settle for a point.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable."
],
"links": [
[
"accept",
"accept"
],
[
"allow",
"allow"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, transitive) To accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-settle for.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/En-au-settle_for.ogg/En-au-settle_for.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/En-au-settle_for.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "with",
"word": "make do"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "tyytyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "sich mit etwas zufriedengeben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "megelégszik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "beéri"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"word": "accontentarsi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "obywać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "obyć się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ograniczać się do"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ograniczyć się do"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poprzestawać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poprzestać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przestawać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zadowalać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zadowolić się"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to accept or allow something, especially something not entirely desirable",
"tags": [
"pronominal"
],
"word": "conformar"
}
],
"word": "settle for"
}
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