variety
US /vɚˈaɪəti/
Definition
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The cafeteria offers a wide variety of healthy meals every day.
Synonyms
- diversitynoticeable heterogeneity
- assortmenta collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- rangean area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
Collocations
- Easy wide variety of choicesdescribing wide variety of choices (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)
- Medium variety of office supplies availabledescribing variety of office supplies available (a collection containing a variety of sorts of things)
- Hard botanical variety protected by patent lawsdescribing botanical variety protected by patent laws (a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves))
- Very Hard garden-variety fraud elevated to state policya collocation phrase: garden-variety fraud elevated to state policy
Learner's English edition · Curated definitions for TOEIC learners.