entrenchment
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The protection of constitutional provisions against ordinary amendment by requiring a special or more demanding procedure.
A written constitution typically provides for the entrenchment of fundamental rights.
Business noun
The use of governance mechanisms to insulate management from removal or challenge.
Analysts saw the poison pill as pure board entrenchment, protecting incumbents rather than shareholders.
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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