how to pronounce pump

/pʌmp/

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pump is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of pump pronunciation

An example use of pump in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… later is a huge pump to get people to …”

meaning of pump

Pump is a verb meaning to force liquid or gas into a container by mechanical means.

pump frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word pump occurs in english on average 12.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics pump can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that pump can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;