deference
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A court's willingness to defer to the assessments of the legislature or executive, affording them a margin of discretion.
The Court showed marked deference to the legislature in complex economic matters.
Business noun
Respectful submission to the judgement or authority of another.
Excessive deference to the founder meant no one challenged the doomed product launch until it was too late.
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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