capitulate
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To cease resisting and give in to demands or pressure.
After weeks of strikes, management finally capitulated to the union's demands.
Business verb
To stop resisting and accept the other side’s terms.
After three rounds, the supplier capitulated on price.
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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