how to pronounce surgery

/ˈsɜː.dʒəɹ.i/

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surgery is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… you were taken into surgery and like we …”

meaning of surgery

Surgery is the act of operating on a patient to cure or repair a disease, injury, deformity, or other physical condition.

surgery frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word surgery occurs in english on average 26.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics surgery 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 surgery can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;