importune
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To press someone persistently and urgently with requests.
Beggars importuned the tourists at every corner.
Business verb
To press someone with persistent and often unwelcome requests.
The minority holders importuned the board for a better exit price right up to signing.
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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