fettering of discretion
C2CEFR level
97/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The unlawful practice of a public body rigidly applying a policy so as to close its mind to the merits of an individual case.
By treating the guidance as an inflexible rule, the board was guilty of fettering its discretion.
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.
Get words like fettering of discretion on your lock screen, a few a day, with review that makes them stick.
Download on the App Store Lexfall puts a new word on your home and lock screen through widgets, so you learn without opening an app. Free to download. After a free trial, a subscription unlocks every field. Built for iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
On a computer?Scan with your iPhone camera.