bifurcate
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To split a trial into separate phases, typically liability and damages.
The court bifurcated the trial so liability could be settled before the costly damages inquiry.
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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