alienation
B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The transfer of ownership of property from one person to another.
The lease contained a strict covenant against alienation without the landlord's prior consent.
Business noun
The transfer of ownership or an interest in property from one person to another.
The lease contained an alienation clause requiring the landlord's consent to any assignment.
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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