anticipatory repudiation
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A party's clear renunciation of its obligations before performance falls due, entitling the other to treat the contract as ended.
Her letter refusing to complete is anticipatory repudiation; we can accept it and sue at once.
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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