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corollary

/kəˈrɒləri/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

General noun

A proposition that follows naturally from one already proved or accepted.

Greater freedom carries as its corollary a greater weight of responsibility.

Similar: consequence, upshot, deduction

Origin: From Latin corollarium 'gratuity, deduction', from corolla 'small garland'.

Topic: logic in General English

Business noun

A natural or logical consequence that follows directly from something already established.

Slower approval times were an unwelcome corollary of the newly centralized decision-making structure.

Similar: consequence, by-product

Topic: Frameworks & analysis 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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