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joint enterprise

noun

C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Liability of parties who share a common purpose for offences committed in its execution.

The gang members were tried on a joint enterprise basis for the killing during the robbery.

Similar: common purpose, common design

Topic: Criminal law 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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