forfeiture
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The landlord's right to end a lease and retake possession when the tenant breaches it.
Persistent non-payment triggered forfeiture, and the bailiffs changed the locks by noon.
Business noun
A landlord's right to terminate a lease and re-enter the premises for the tenant's breach of covenant.
Persistent non-payment of rent exposed the tenant to forfeiture of the shop lease.
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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