dissent
Medicine noun
A difference of opinion from an official or majority view.
The handover record noted one team member's dissent from the proposed discharge plan.
Law noun
A formal statement of disagreement by an arbitrator with the majority's decision.
The party-appointed arbitrator issued a sharp dissent on the calculation of damages.
Business noun
The expression of opinions that differ from those officially held.
Healthy dissent was engineered into the process by appointing a mandatory devil's advocate for every big call.
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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