incapacitation
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The prevention of further offending by removing an offender's ability to reoffend, typically through imprisonment.
The lengthy tariff was justified largely on grounds of incapacitation, given his record of violence.
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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