bloat
C1CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
An abnormal accumulation of gas in the stomach or rumen causing dangerous distension.
I warned the farmer that bloat can develop rapidly and is a genuine emergency in cattle.
Business noun
Excessive, inefficient accumulation of layers, features, or costs.
The efficiency review targeted the management bloat that had crept in during the boom years.
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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