condone
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To accept or overlook behaviour that is generally considered wrong.
The school does not condone bullying of any kind.
Law verb
To accept or overlook conduct that might otherwise justify disciplinary or legal action.
By taking no action for months, the employer was held to have condoned the earlier breach.
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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