lesser included offense
C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A crime whose elements are wholly contained within a more serious charged crime.
The judge instructed the jury on manslaughter as a lesser included offense of murder.
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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