compounding
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The offence of accepting consideration in return for not disclosing or prosecuting a crime.
By taking money to keep silent about the theft, she laid herself open to a charge of compounding an offence.
Business noun
The process by which returns themselves earn further returns over time.
She started her pension at twenty-two precisely so decades of compounding could do the heavy lifting.
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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