incidental
B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Discovered by chance while investigating something unrelated.
An incidental lesion was noted on imaging performed for another reason.
Law adjective
Arising as a minor accompanying consequence of a breach, such as the cost of returning defective goods.
Alongside the price difference, the buyer recovered incidental expenses for storing and reshipping the rejected consignment.
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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