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cease and desist letter

noun

C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A formal letter demanding that the recipient stop an allegedly infringing activity and refrain from repeating it.

Our first step was to send a cease and desist letter to the online seller.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

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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