dilapidations
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Disrepair for which a tenant is held liable at the end of a lease.
The landlord served a schedule of dilapidations running to forty thousand pounds.
Business noun
Disrepair for which a tenant is liable, or the claim a landlord makes for such disrepair at the end of a lease.
On surrender, the landlord served a schedule of dilapidations totalling £40,000 for unrepaired damage.
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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