ergonomics
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The study of designing tasks and environments to fit the person and reduce strain.
A workplace ergonomics assessment led us to raise his monitor and change his chair.
Business noun
The study of designing workplaces and equipment to fit the people who use them and reduce strain.
Poor desk ergonomics were behind the spike in repetitive-strain complaints.
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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