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emancipation

noun/ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən/

B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
FormalRegister

The act of freeing a person or group from legal, social or political restraint.

The emancipation of the enslaved population transformed the nation's economy.

Similar: liberation, freeing

Topic: Society & power in General English

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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