arrest of a vessel
A2CEFR level
5/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
The detention of a ship by order of an admiralty court to found jurisdiction or provide security for a maritime claim.
They obtained the arrest of the sister ship to secure their bunker claim.
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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