arrears
B1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Tax that remains unpaid after its due date.
Interest continued to accrue on the arrears until the debt was finally cleared.
Business noun
Money owed that should already have been paid.
The tenant fell three months into arrears.
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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