0 to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been said or done:
For patients who do not respond to drug treatment, surgery is a possible option.
It remains to be seen whether the cancer will respond to treatment.
The police respond to emergencies (= arrive and are ready to deal with emergencies) in just a few minutes.
[ + that ] When the tax office wrote to me demanding unpaid income tax, I responded that I had been working abroad since 1998.
How did she respond to the news?
He responded by marching off and slamming the door behind him.
[ + speech ] To every question, he responded "I don't know."
1 to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been said or done:
2 to say or do something as a reaction to something that has been done or has happened:
respond by doing sth In focussing on carbon reduction, many companies respond by attempting relatively simple fixes.
respond to sth Aid must double to respond to natural disasters.
3 to say or write something as a reaction to something that has been said or written, for example, a letter:
respond to sth I will need to respond to his email today.
The task requires the use of word recognition skills to recognize a word or lexical item in order to respond.
The same test items presented in an oral or written form and responded to in the same manner led to consistent differences in performance.
Authors like writing pearls perhaps because they like responding to the opportunities and challenges provided by the format.
An analysis of maternal responding confirmed this pattern, showing a distinct difference in reproductiveness in responding depending on the word-like-ness of the child utterances.
His advanced years here cancel out further susceptibility to uncertain experience, as he knows how he will respond to a wide range of situations.
First, political elites may respond selectively to indigenous claims, meeting specific types of demands, while marginalising or punishing other types of claims.
The sensors are assumed to respond to the controller within the time windows to confirm that the expected state transitions have occurred.
This possibility was not eliminated by the phonemic awareness tasks used here because our participants were not required to respond quickly to those tasks.
