bereavement
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The state of having recently lost a loved one through death, and the grief that follows.
We can arrange bereavement support if you'd find it helpful to talk to someone in the coming weeks.
Law noun
The state of having lost a close relative, giving rise to entitlements to leave.
Parents now have a statutory right to bereavement leave following the death of a child.
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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