avoidable
A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Capable of being prevented, so that any resulting loss is not recoverable.
The rule against recovering avoidable loss required the claimant to have sourced a substitute promptly.
Business adjective
Able to be eliminated if a particular activity or product is discontinued.
Only the avoidable costs were relevant to the decision to drop the loss-making product line.
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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