break the chain of causation
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To interrupt the causal link so that the defendant is no longer legally responsible for the later harm.
The hospital argued that the second surgeon's error had broken the chain of causation.
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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