in loco parentis
B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
In the place of a parent, describing a person who assumes parental responsibility for a child.
During the school trip the teachers stood in loco parentis to the pupils.
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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