complementarity
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The principle that the International Criminal Court acts only where national courts are unwilling or unable genuinely to prosecute.
Under complementarity, the Court deferred to the ongoing national trial.
Business noun
The quality of two businesses or assets whose value increases when combined.
The strategic logic rested on complementarity, since each firm was strong precisely where the other was weak.
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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