deadlock
B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A complete standstill in decision-making caused by an even division of votes or interests.
The equal shareholding produced a deadlock that could only be resolved by winding up the company.
Business noun
A situation in which neither side will move, so no agreement can be reached.
The talks reached deadlock over indemnity and were adjourned for a week.
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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