axiom
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
A self-evident proposition taken as a starting point from which others are derived.
Every proof in the system rests ultimately on a handful of unproven axioms.
Business noun
A statement or principle so fundamental that it is accepted as a starting point for further reasoning without proof.
The framework rests on the axiom that customers switch suppliers primarily to reduce risk, not to save money.
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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