at arm's length
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Describing a transaction between parties acting independently in their own separate interests, with neither controlling or unduly influencing the other.
The related-party loan was documented as if negotiated at arm's length on ordinary commercial terms.
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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