estoppel
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A bar preventing someone from asserting a contradictory fact.
He was barred by estoppel from denying the agreement he'd relied on.
Business noun
A legal bar preventing a party from asserting something contrary to its earlier conduct or representations.
Having accepted late payments for years, the lessor was met with estoppel when it suddenly declared default.
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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