ecosystem

CEFRC1

/ˈiːkəʊˌsɪstəm/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A community of living things and their natural surroundings.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A network of interconnected people, organizations, products or services that resembles a natural ecosystem due to the complex interdependencies.

Examples

  • The coastal ecosystem of British Columbia is rapidly declining.

  • The construction of the dam created an artificial lake that destroyed a whole ecosystem.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈikoʊˌsɪstəm/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.

  2. A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

More examples

In context

  • The company’s ecosystem mainly comprises its supply chain, customers, end consumers and competitors.

  • It [The Kashmir Files] is being described by the leftist “liberal” ecosystem as a movie that peddles bigotry against Muslims.

  • There is a certain duality in how the Hindutva ecosystem is pushing the anti-hijab discourse into the mainstream.

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Origin

noun

From eco- + system. Coined by English botanist Arthur Tansley in 1935 in a paper titled The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts in the journal Ecology.