(~s, posing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If something ~s a problem or a danger, it is the cause of that problem or danger.
This could ~ a threat to jobs in the coal industry...
His ill health ~s serious problems for the future.
VERB: V n, V n
2.
If you ~ a question, you ask it. If you ~ an issue that needs considering, you mention the issue. (FORMAL)
When I finally ~d the question, ‘Why?’ he merely shrugged.
...the moral issues ~d by new technologies.
VERB: V n, V-ed
3.
If you ~ as someone, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people.
The team ~d as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.
VERB: V as n
4.
If you ~ for a photograph or painting, you stay in a particular position so that someone can photograph you or paint you.
Before going into their meeting the six foreign ministers ~d for photographs.
VERB: V for n
5.
You can say that people are posing when you think that they are behaving in an insincere or exaggerated way because they want to make a particular impression on other people.
He criticized them for dressing outrageously and posing pretentiously.
VERB: usu cont, V disapproval
6.
A ~ is a particular way that you stand, sit, or lie, for example when you are being photographed or painted.
We have had several preliminary sittings in various ~s.
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