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acceleration clause

noun

C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A term letting a creditor demand the entire balance at once upon default.

One missed instalment tripped the acceleration clause and the whole loan fell due.

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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