entrenched
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Protected from amendment or repeal except by a special procedure such as a supermajority or referendum.
The equality clause is deeply entrenched and cannot be altered by a simple majority.
Business adjective
So firmly established as to be resistant to change.
Entrenched hierarchies made even trivial reforms feel like moving a mountain.
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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