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attribution

/ˌatrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n/

B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The author's moral right to be identified as the creator of a work.

The contract waived the illustrator's right of attribution on the commissioned artwork.

Similar: paternity

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Business noun

The practice of assigning credit for a sale to the touchpoints that led to it.

Last-click attribution flatters search and buries everything that built demand upstream.

Topic: Marketing & brand in Business English

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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