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clean break

noun

C2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A financial arrangement that ends all ongoing financial obligations between spouses so neither can make future claims against the other.

Our client wanted a clean break so that his ex-wife could not return to court for maintenance years later.

Topic: Family law 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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