imprimatur
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Official approval or sanction giving something the authority to proceed.
The scheme could not go ahead without the minister's imprimatur.
Business noun
Official approval or sanction that lends authority to something.
Without the CFO's imprimatur, the recommended cost-cutting plan would never reach the board agenda.
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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