picture // noun

1 [C, usually sing.]

a description that gives you an idea of what sth is like:

The writer paints a gloomy picture of the economy.

Investors are holding back until a clearer picture emerges.

2 [sing.] the picture

the general situation concerning sb/sth:

The overall picture for industry is encouraging.

The government has focused on inflation levels and ignored the wider economic picture.

IDIOMS

in/out of the picture (informal)

involved/not involved in a situation:

With our main competitors out of the picture, we have a good chance of winning the contract.

put/keep sb in the picture (informal)

to give sb the information they need in order to understand a situation:

Just to put you in the picture-there have been a number of changes here recently.

BIG

• information architecture
• information exchange
• information management
• information processing model
• information retrieval
• information science
• information space
• information superhighway
• information technology
• informercial
• infotainment
• infraction
• infrastructure
• infringe
• infusion
• ingot
• ingredient
• inherent vice
• inherit
• inheritance
• inheritance tax
• in-home
• in-house
• initial
• initialize