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addendum

/əˈdɛndəm/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Medicine noun

An addition appended to a finalised report to convey further information or a supplementary result.

An addendum was issued to the report once the pending culture had grown a significant organism.

Topic: Medical laboratory in Medical English

Law noun

A supplementary provision added to a contract after its main text is settled.

The pricing schedule was finalised late and incorporated as an addendum to the master agreement.

Similar: rider, supplement, annex

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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