laches
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
An unreasonable delay in asserting a right that bars the claim in equity.
The defence pleaded laches, arguing she had sat on her rights for eleven years before suing.
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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