fraternise
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To associate or socialise on friendly terms, especially with those one should keep at a distance.
Managers were quietly discouraged from fraternising too closely with their staff.
Business verb
To socialise or form close relationships with colleagues, sometimes against policy.
The handbook discouraged managers from fraternising with the staff they directly appraised.
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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