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after-acquired evidence

noun

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Employee misconduct discovered only after termination that limits, though rarely bars, damages for a wrongful firing.

We found the resume fraud during discovery, so after-acquired evidence should cap her back pay at that date.

Topic: Employment law 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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