break-bulk
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing cargo shipped as separate loose pieces rather than in containers or in bulk.
The turbine was too oversized for a box, so it moved break-bulk on a project vessel.
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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