encumbrance
C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A legal claim or liability attached to property.
The title was sold free of any encumbrance.
Business noun
A claim or liability attached to an asset, such as a lien or mortgage, that limits its free use.
Due diligence turned up an undisclosed encumbrance on the warehouse, so we escrowed part of the purchase price.
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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