System ˈsɪstəm Transport Educational Government Work I We’re

• the british educational system
• a new system for assessing personal tax bills
• a system of government
• a transport system

system

1. an organized set of ideas or theories or a particular way of doing something
• see also binary
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/binary_2
• the British educational system
• a new system for assessing personal tax bills
• a system of government
2. a group of things, pieces of equipment, etc. that are connected or work together
• see also ecosystem
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ecosystem
• a transport system
• heating systems
• a stereo system
• a security system
3. a human or an animal body, or a part of it, when it is being thought of as the organs and processes that make it function
• see also central nervous system
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/central-nervous-system
• You have to wait until the drugs have passed out of your system.
• the male reproductive system
4. the rules or people that control a country or an organization, especially when they seem to be unfair because you cannot change them
• You can't beat the system (= you must accept it).
• young people rebelling against the system
5. used to say that everything is working well or that everything is ready for something to happen or be successful
• The firm struggled to generate much business at the start, but now it's all systems go.
• Last weekend's heavy snowfall means it's all systems go for the ski season.
6. to do something so that you no longer feel a very strong emotion or have a strong desire
• I was very angry with him, but now I feel I've got it out of my system.

Extra Examples

• For this month only, installing the system is free.
• He played the legal system to his own advantage.
• How is the system organized?
• It’s not your fault—blame the system.
• Just reboot the system and try again.
• Returning to work after a long break can be a terrible shock to the system.
• She spent her years at school fighting the system.
• The air-conditioning system failed.
• The entire computer system went down.
• The game has a complex scoring system.
• The governor referred to a prison system that was bankrupt of compassion.
• The law applies to schools within the state system.
• The new system is overly complex.
• The so-called reforms merely perpetuate an unjust system.
• The system runs on this workstation.
• They are all part of the corrupt system we need to change.
• They devised an appropriate system for presenting the required information.
• This case proves that the system works effectively.
• This system allows you to study at your own speed.
• Under the new system, all children will be monitored by a senior social worker.
• We are implementing a new system of stock control.
• We’re designing a voice-recognition system.
• We’re looking to replace the existing system.
• You can never beat the system!
• a backlog of cases clogging up the system
• a closed system with a rigidly defined set of choices
• a fault in the sound system
• a valve in the circulatory system
• an attempt to bypass the bureaucratic system
• an information retrieval system
• an integrated transport system
• at another point in the education system
• attempts to disrupt the rail system
• faults in the data processing system
• modernizing their judicial system
• perpetuating an unjust system
• schools within the public system
• the central nervous system
• the need to modernize the judicial system
• Fortunately the class system is not as rigid as it once was.
• He is currently on a life-support system in the local hospital.
• I bought a new stereo/audio system last week.
• Once your systems are in place you can concentrate on the main focus of your business.
• Our system of granting visas is unnecessarily complicated.
• The alarm system had been switched off.
• The country’s economic system is close to collapse.
• The justice system is based on just one or two fundamental principles.
• The latest computer system is much more efficient.
• The new system is designed to eliminate fraud.
• Their existing system of government seems to work reasonably well.
• There is a national system for exchanging essential information.
• They have a highly bureaucratic system.
• They have a modern and efficient health care system.
• They introduced a democratic parliamentary system in the 1980s.
• This is a highly effective system for storing data.
• We need to re-examine the systems we are currently using.
• We’re hoping to improve the national transport system.
• What do you think of the current educational system?
• What kind of heating system do you use?
• a heating/computer system
• the educational/justice system

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from French système or late Latin systema, from Greek sustēma, from sun- ‘with’ + histanai ‘set up’.