change of position
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A restitutionary defence available where the recipient has, in good faith, so altered their circumstances that repaying would be inequitable.
She pleaded change of position, having spent the mistaken payment on a holiday she'd never otherwise have taken.
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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