balloon
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing a loan whose final repayment is much larger than the earlier ones.
The low monthly figure hid a balloon payment that swallowed most of the car's value at the end of the deal.
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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