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incorporation

noun/ɪnˌkɔːpəˈreɪʃən/

B2CEFR level
32/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The process by which international obligations or external rights are given effect in domestic law by legislation.

Incorporation of the Convention allowed rights to be enforced directly in the domestic courts.

Topic: Constitutional & public in Legal English

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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