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codify

/ˈkəʊdɪfaɪ/

C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Law verb

To arrange laws or rules into a systematic code.

The reform codified centuries of scattered case law.

Similar: systematize, consolidate

Origin: Latin codex 'book of laws'.

Topic: Legislation in Legal English

Business verb

To set out informal practices as an explicit, written set of rules or standards.

Before scaling, the founders codified their hiring bar into a rubric every interviewer had to use.

Similar: formalise, systematise

Topic: Management & organisation in Business 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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