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figure(noun)/ˈfɪɡə(r)/ /ˈfɪɡjər/- a number representing a particular amount, especially one given in official information
- the latest sales/crime/unemployment figures
- Official figures indicate that crime is falling.
- Figures for April show a slight improvement on previous months.
- By 2017, this figure had risen to 14 million.
- Viewing figures for the series have dropped dramatically.
- Figures released by the hospital reveal a rise in the number of admissions.
- Experts put the real figure at closer to 75%.
- According to government figures, 3.6 million children are living in poverty.
- Her argument is backed up with plenty of facts and figures.
Extra Examples- We don't need a lot of facts and figures to understand that homelessness is a problem—we see it every day in our cities.
- The most recent trade figures vividly illustrate this problem.
- According to figures published recently, more people are in serious debt.
- Figures obtained by this newspaper show that the group spent 3.6 million euro on TV advertising.
- For 2016–17, the figure quoted is $1.295 billion.
- The report cites figures as high as 85%.
- We can't put a firm figure on it, but attendance was better than ever.
- Even though he doubled his sales figures every year, he was fired.
- The bank's figures reveal mortgage borrowing rose by £7.9 billion.
- The company hopes to double this figure by the end of the year.
- 64% of American women breastfeed during their infants' first weeks of life, but after 6 months, that figure drops to 29%.
- These figures reflect sales for just the early part of the summer.
- Do those figures include families with no children living at home?
- A breakdown of the figures shows that 73% of the employees who requested flexible working were women.
- The average price is nearly 20% above the figure for the previous year.
- This figure represents an increase of nearly 13%.
- This figure might suggest several billion pounds a year of losses worldwide.
- The government has just released new unemployment figures.
- The industry remains in the doldrums, according to official figures out today.
- These figures don't add up.
- The final figure looks like being much higher than predicted.
- Lots of different figures were being bandied about.
- a symbol rather than a word representing one of the numbers between 0 and 9
SEE ALSO double-figure
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/double-figure - Write the figure ‘7’ on the board.
- paths built in the shape of a figure 8
- a six-figure salary (= over 100 000 pounds or dollars)
- Her salary is now in six figures.
- My unread email was in triple figures (= more than 100).
- Ticket prices for the show are likely to be into three figures (= at least 100 pounds or dollars).
Extra Examples- Roads loop around the site in a figure eight.
- Skaters carve figure eights in the ice.
- Write a figure “1” next to bids that were successful and "0" next to those that were not.
- Inflation is now in single figures.
- The rate of inflation reached double figures.
- England's batsmen failed to reach triple figures.
- She's earning a six-figure salary.
- At that time, very few artists made as many as four figures.
- He took a photo of her and sold it to a tabloid newspaper for five figures.
- I'd be surprised if the fee doesn't run into five figures.
- The gross sales of a moderately successful book come in the low five figures.
- After five years she can expect to earn in the high five figures.
- The crowds the band can attract have dipped to the low four figures.
- the area of mathematics that deals with adding, multiplying, etc. numbers
SYNONYM arithmetic
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/arithmetic_1 - Are you any good at figures?
- I'm afraid I don't have a head for figures (= I am not good at adding, etc.).
- I was never very good at figures.
- a person of the type mentioned
SEE ALSO father figure
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/father-figure - a leading figure in the music industry
- a senior figure in the organization
- a key/prominent/central figure
- King's widow, Coretta Scott King, later became a public figure in her own right.
- teachers and other authority figures
- a figure of authority/ridicule
- He was a well-known figure in London at that time.
- one of the most popular figures in athletics
- When she last saw him, he was a sad figure—old and tired.
Extra Examples- Several powerful political figures spoke out against him.
- As a public figure, you have certain responsibilities.
- a key figure on the committee
- He was one of the most prominent figures of the Pop Art movement.
- She was a central figure in revolutionary politics at that time.
- one of modern architecture's most influential figures
- She often came into conflict with teachers and other authority figures.
- Kinsey was a controversial figure in his own time.
- celebrities who have become figures of ridicule
- He was not only a composer but a figure of some historical importance.
- She is interested in Jesus as a historical figure.
- He corresponded with notable artists, art historians, and literary figures.
- He was an Italian painter, a shadowy figure about whose life very little is known.
- a relatively unknown figure from the world of fashion
- He was a familiar figure in the local pub.
- They were visited by the unlikely figure of Donald Trump.
- A male Scottish law professor seems an unlikely figure to be writing novels about an African woman detective.
- the shape of a person seen from a distance or not clearly
- There before him stood a tall figure in black.
- A shadowy figure can be seen through the window.
- The seated figure in the corner beckoned me over.
Extra Examples- I saw a shadowy figure approaching.
- A hooded figure stood by the door.
- Who is the figure in the background?
- I opened my eyes to see several figures standing over me.
- She appears as a ghostly figure.
- Just then, two figures appeared over the horizon.
- There was a figure coming up the path.
- the shape of the human body, especially a woman’s body that is attractive
- She's always had a good figure.
- I'm watching my figure (= trying not to get fat).
Extra Examples- You need to watch your figure.
- foods that are good for the health and the figure
- Dancing is fun and great for your figure.
- You have a lovely figure.
- She's kept her figure after all these years.
- I thought if I had a baby I'd lose my figure.
- How do you get such a great figure?
- He's small, with a rather plump figure.
- a person or an animal in a drawing, painting, etc., or in a story
SEE ALSO matchstick figure
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/matchstick-figure - The central figure in the painting is the artist's daughter.
- a statue of a person or an animal
SEE ALSO action figure
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/action-figure - a bronze figure of a horse
- a picture, diagram, etc. in a book, that is referred to by a number or letter
- The results are illustrated in figure 3 opposite.
Extra Examples- See Figure 8.
- Figure 4 represents the process of soil erosion.
- a particular shape formed by lines or surfaces
- a five-sided figure
- a solid figure
- a pattern or series of movements performed on ice
- The skater executed a perfect set of figures.
- to be/become somebody that other people laugh at
- to have a particular appearance
- He cut a striking figure in his white dinner jacket.
- He cut a dashing figure in his uniform.
- accurate and detailed information
- I've asked to see all the facts and figures before I make a decision.
- to say the exact price or number of something
- It’s impossible to put a figure on the number of homeless people in London.
- You can't put a dollar figure on the lives ruined by the hurricane.
Word Origin- Middle English (in the senses ‘distinctive shape of a person or thing’, ‘representation of something material or immaterial’, and ‘numerical symbol’, among others): from Old French figure (noun), figurer (verb), from Latin figura ‘shape, figure, form’; related to fingere ‘form, contrive’.
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