independence
A2CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The freedom of an arbitrator from relationships that could compromise objectivity.
Doubts as to the arbitrator's independence arose from his firm's links to the respondent.
Business noun
The auditor's freedom from relationships or interests that could compromise professional judgement.
Providing bookkeeping services to an audit client would fatally impair the firm's independence.
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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