holdout
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A creditor who refuses a consensual restructuring to extract a better individual outcome.
One holdout fund threatened to derail the whole scheme unless it was paid out in full.
Business noun
A party who refuses to agree in order to extract disproportionate value from a deal that needs them.
One holdout on the cap table can stall the whole round demanding a sweeter price for his stub.
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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