cull
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine verb
To remove or slaughter selected animals from a group, often for disease control or on welfare grounds.
The vet and farmer agreed to cull the chronically infected ewes to protect the wider flock.
Business verb
To reduce a workforce or candidate pool by removing people selectively.
They culled the applicant list overnight, rejecting anyone without direct sector experience.
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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