curtilage
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The enclosed land immediately surrounding a dwelling.
Whether the shed lay within the curtilage decided if planning permission was even needed.
Business noun
The enclosed land immediately surrounding a dwelling and treated in law as part of it.
The planners argued that the new decking lay within the curtilage and needed no separate consent.
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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