increased costs
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Additional expenses that a change in law or regulatory capital requirement imposes on a lender, which the borrower must reimburse under the agreement.
The lenders invoked the increased costs clause after new capital rules raised the cost of holding the loan.
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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