force majeure
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A clause excusing performance when extraordinary events beyond a party's control intervene.
The supplier invoked force majeure when the port was shut by the embargo.
Business noun
A clause excusing performance when extraordinary events make it impossible.
They invoked force majeure to duck the shipment, but a port delay doesn't qualify.
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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