endemic
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Regularly found within and characteristic of a particular place or group.
Corruption was endemic to the late imperial bureaucracy.
Medicine adjective
Regularly found among a particular people or region.
Malaria remains endemic in parts of the tropics.
Business adjective
Regularly found and widespread within a particular group or area.
The interviews revealed that missed handoffs between departments were endemic across the organization.
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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