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indivisibility

/ˌɪndɪvɪzəˈbɪləti/

C1CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Law noun

The principle that civil, political, economic and social rights form a single inseparable whole.

The conference reaffirmed the indivisibility of all human rights.

Topic: Human rights in Legal English

Business noun

The property of an input or good that must be bought in whole units and cannot be scaled smoothly.

The indivisibility of a blast furnace forces the plant to run near full capacity to justify the outlay.

Similar: lumpiness

Topic: Economics in Business 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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