gross negligence and wilful misconduct
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A high threshold of fault, involving serious carelessness or deliberate wrongdoing, commonly carved out of exclusion and limitation clauses so that liability for it is preserved.
The liability cap did not apply in cases of the contractor's gross negligence and wilful misconduct.
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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