bill of lading
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A document issued by a carrier acknowledging receipt of goods for shipment, serving as evidence of the contract of carriage and, when negotiable, as a document of title.
The bank refused to release funds because the bill of lading was claused and therefore not clean.
Business noun
A document issued by a carrier acknowledging receipt of cargo for shipment.
The bank would release payment only against a clean bill of lading.
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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