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embed

verb/ɪmˈbed/

B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To fix a practice or value firmly within the routine workings of an organisation.

They embedded safety checks into the daily standup so they became second nature.

Similar: entrench, instil

Topic: Management & organisation in Business 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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