insubordination
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Deliberate refusal to obey a lawful and reasonable instruction from a superior.
His flat refusal to attend the meeting was treated as insubordination warranting a final warning.
Business noun
Deliberate refusal to obey a manager's reasonable and lawful instructions.
Ignoring a direct request in front of the client tipped over into insubordination.
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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