broadly speaking
B2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
A hedging phrase used to introduce a general statement while conceding that finer distinctions exist.
Broadly speaking, the two schools of thought differ over the role of the state.
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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