decree nisi
C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A provisional court order stating that a couple is entitled to divorce but which does not yet dissolve the marriage.
The judge pronounced the decree nisi in open court, and the parties were told they could apply for the final decree six weeks later.
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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