constructive total loss
C1CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A loss treated as total because the cost of repair or recovery would exceed the value of the thing saved.
The surveyor declared a constructive total loss, the salvage bill dwarfing what the hull was worth.
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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