duress
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
Constraint or pressure, especially unlawful, used to force someone into an act they would otherwise refuse.
Consent obtained under duress has no legal or ethical validity.
Law noun
Unlawful pressure that forces someone to act against their will.
The confession was thrown out as made under duress.
Business noun
Unlawful pressure or coercion that may render a resulting agreement voidable.
They argued the settlement had been signed under duress and should be set aside.
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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