Words starting with R

674 words from the Lexfall vocabulary, each with a definition and an example sentence.

race to the bottom A destructive pattern where rivals repeatedly cut prices until margins collapse for...
racemate A mixture containing equal amounts of the two enantiomers of a chiral compound.
RACI A responsibility matrix clarifying who is responsible, accountable, consulted and...
raci matrix A grid that clarifies who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed for each...
racing thoughts A rapid, uncontrollable stream of thoughts, typical of manic or anxious states.
rack rent A rent equal to or close to the full annual value of the property.
racketeering The operation of an illegal business or fraudulent scheme, often involving extortion or...
radiate Of pain, to spread out from its original site to another part of the body.
radiate to the arm Of pain, to spread from its origin in the chest outward, typically down the left arm or...
radiation The spreading of pain from its original site to another part of the body.
radical candor Feedback that pairs genuine personal care with a willingness to challenge someone...
radical candour A feedback approach that combines caring personally with challenging directly.
radiculopathy Dysfunction of a spinal nerve root, producing pain, weakness or sensory change in its...
radiograph A dental X-ray image used to reveal decay, bone levels and structures hidden from...
radiography The production of still images of internal structures by passing X-rays through the body...
radiolucent Appearing dark on an X-ray because the structure allows radiation to pass through easily.
radiopaque Appearing white on an X-ray because the structure absorbs, rather than transmits,...
radioresistant Relatively unaffected by ionising radiation and thus difficult to treat with radiotherapy.
radiosensitive Readily damaged or destroyed by ionising radiation.
radiotherapy The use of ionising radiation to destroy or shrink malignant tissue.
rag status A red, amber or green rating that signals at a glance whether a project or workstream is...
rage bait Content engineered to enrage you into engagement.
raider A person or company that mounts a hostile bid to seize control of an undervalued target.
raillery Good-humoured ridicule or teasing at someone's expense.
railroad To force a decision or agreement through with undue haste, allowing no scrutiny.
rainmaker A person who reliably brings in lucrative deals, clients, or capital.
raise capital To obtain money to fund a business.
raise rates To increase official interest rates, usually to slow the economy and curb inflation.
raised intracranial pressure An abnormal increase in the pressure inside the skull, which can compress the brain and...
rambling Lacking clear organisation and wandering from one topic to another.
ramp up To increase sales activity or output steadily towards full productivity.
Ramsay principle The purposive approach under which a series of preordained, self-cancelling steps in a...
rancid Tasting or smelling unpleasant from the decomposition of fats or oils.
rancour Bitter, long-lasting resentment or ill will.
range of motion The full extent to which a joint can be moved in different directions.
range-of-movement exercises Exercises designed to maintain or restore how far a joint can move.
ranking The order of priority in which claims or securities are paid on an insolvency.
ransom strip A narrow piece of land whose owner can block access to or development of adjoining...
rapacious Aggressively grasping and predatory in the pursuit of gain.
rapid assessment A quick, structured evaluation of an acutely unwell patient to identify immediate threats...
rapid sequence induction A method of inducing general anaesthesia and securing the airway as quickly as possible...
rapport A close and harmonious relationship marked by mutual understanding.
rapporteur A member of a parliamentary committee or a court designated to prepare a report or draft...
rapprochement The re-establishment of cordial relations between people or groups after a period of...
rapture A feeling of intense pleasure, joy or ecstasy.
rapturous Characterised by or expressing intense delight or ecstasy.
rarefied Belonging to an exclusive, elevated, or highly refined sphere.
rash An area of red, irritated skin.
ratable Recognized in equal increments spread evenly across the contract term rather than booked...
ratchet An anti-dilution mechanism resetting an earlier investor's conversion price down to the...
ratchet clause A provision that automatically adjusts terms one way when a trigger is hit, and never...
rate on line The reinsurance premium expressed as a percentage of the coverage limit bought.
rateable Denoting a property's assessed value used as the basis for local business rates.
ratification The subsequent approval by a principal of an act done on its behalf without prior...
ratify To give formal approval that makes something official.
ratio decidendi The point of law on which a court's decision actually turns and which later courts must...
ratiocination The process of exact, methodical logical reasoning.
ratioed Having replies vastly outnumber likes - the internet voting against you.
ration To allocate a scarce supply in controlled, limited amounts.
rationalisation The streamlining of a product range, supplier base, or facility network to cut cost and...
rationalise To reorganise a business to make it more efficient, often by cutting redundant operations.
rationalism The view that reason, rather than sensory experience, is the chief source of knowledge.
rationalize To trim and streamline a portfolio or footprint for efficiency.
rationing The controlled allocation of a scarce good by means other than price.
ravishing So beautiful as to be utterly delightful and captivating.
Re: The subject line placed above the letter body to identify the patient, typically giving...
re-engagement A tribunal order that a dismissed employee be re-employed in a comparable, but not...
re-examination The further questioning of a witness by the party who called him, confined to matters...
re-export A good that is imported and then exported again without substantial processing.
reablement Short-term, goal-focused support that helps a person relearn daily skills and regain...
reach The total number of distinct people exposed to a piece of content or a campaign.
reach a consensus To arrive at general agreement within a group.
reach a crisis point To arrive at a moment when a person's mental state becomes acutely unsafe or unmanageable.
reach a settlement To resolve a dispute by agreement rather than a court ruling.
reach an agreement To arrive at a settlement that both parties accept.
reach out To make contact with a prospect or customer, typically to start or continue a...
reactance The impulse to resist persuasion felt as a threat to one's freedom of choice.
reactivate To restore a lapsed or dormant customer to active status.
read-back The practice of repeating a verbal instruction or result back to the sender to confirm it...
reading down The interpretive technique of construing a statutory provision narrowly so as to render...
readout A structured presentation of findings and recommendations delivered to the client at a...
reagent A substance added to a sample to produce a measurable chemical reaction during testing.
real option The right, but not the obligation, to make a future strategic investment such as...
real prospect of success The threshold, more than merely fanciful but not requiring probable success, that a claim...
realign To change positions or priorities so that they fit together or with a new direction.
realisation The point at which a gain becomes definite through sale or settlement.
realise To convert an asset or gain into cash or a completed transaction.
reallocation The redistribution of capital, resources, or personnel from one part of an organization...
realpolitik Politics based on practical and material factors rather than moral or ideological...
reasonable adjustment A change an employer makes to remove a disadvantage a disabled employee would otherwise...
reasonable adjustments Changes an employer must make to remove or reduce a disadvantage faced by a disabled...
reasonable endeavours A less onerous obligation than best endeavours, generally requiring a party to take one...
reasonable force The degree of force that is proportionate and necessary in the circumstances as the...
reasonable investigation The inquiry an employer must carry out into alleged misconduct before it can fairly rely...
reasonable man The hypothetical ordinary person against whose conduct the defendant's behaviour is...
reasonableness The audit quality of a figure being consistent with the auditor's independent expectation.
reasonably foreseeable Describing harm of a kind that an ordinary prudent person would have anticipated as a...
reasoned Describing an award that sets out the tribunal's findings and the grounds for its...
reasoned award An award that sets out the tribunal's reasons for its decision, as most institutional...
reassign To allocate a person or task to a different role or owner.
reassortment The exchange of genome segments between related viruses co-infecting a cell.
reassurance Words or actions intended to reduce a person's fear or doubt and restore a sense of...
reassure To ease a patient's worry with calm, clear words.
reassure the parents To relieve the worries of a child's parents by explaining that the situation is not...
reassuring Having the effect of removing someone's fears or worries.
rebalance To restore a portfolio to its target weightings by buying and selling assets.
rebaseline To formally reset the approved schedule, budget, or scope after change has made the...
rebasing The resetting of an asset's base cost to its market value at a specified date for gains...
rebate A repayment of tax that has already been paid.
rebound Pain felt when pressure on the abdomen is suddenly released, indicating irritation of the...
rebound tenderness Sharp pain felt when pressure on the abdomen is suddenly released, a sign of peritoneal...
rebrand To overhaul a brand's identity, name, or image to change how it is perceived.
rebuff To reject or snub an approach, offer or overture bluntly.
rebut To argue that a claim or accusation is false, typically by presenting counter-evidence.
rebuttable Of a presumption, capable of being displaced by evidence to the contrary.
rebuttable presumption An assumption the law treats as established until a party adduces sufficient evidence to...
rebuttal A statement or argument that contradicts or disproves an opposing claim.
rebutter In old common-law pleading, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's surrejoinder.
recalcitrant Stubbornly resistant to authority, discipline or control.
recalculation The act of independently checking the arithmetical accuracy of a client's figures.
recalibrate To adjust an approach, plan or expectation in the light of new information.
recall A consumer's ability to remember a brand or advertisement without prompting.
recant To withdraw or formally retract a previous statement or item of testimony.
recantation A formal withdrawal of an earlier statement or testimony.
recap To briefly summarise the main points that have been covered.
recapitalisation A restructuring of a company's mix of debt and equity to stabilise or improve its capital...
recapitalise To restructure a company's mix of debt and equity, often to restore solvency.
recast A legislative technique combining substantive amendment with codification into a single...
receipt rule The rule that an acceptance by instantaneous means takes effect only when it is received.
receivable Money owed to a business by its customers.
receivables Money owed to a company by its customers.
receiver A person appointed to take control of and realise charged assets for the benefit of a...
receivership The state of a company whose assets are under the control of a receiver appointed to...
recency How recently a customer last made a purchase, a key predictor of future behaviour.
recency planning Scheduling media to reach buyers close to their moment of purchase rather than in...
receptive Willing and open to receive new ideas, suggestions, or information.
recession The visible drawing-in of the skin between or below the ribs during breathing, indicating...
recharacterisation A court's recasting of a purported loan as an equity contribution, defeating the lender's...
recharge An internal cross-charge of costs from one part of an organisation to another.
recidivism The tendency of a convict to reoffend.
recidivist A person who repeatedly commits offences, especially one undeterred by previous...
reciprocal Given by each party to the other in return.
reciprocate To respond to a concession or gesture with a matching one.
reciprocity The mutual exchange of obligations or benefits underpinning a bargain between parties.
recital An introductory clause setting out the background and purpose behind an agreement.
recitals The introductory clauses of a contract that set out its background and purpose.
recite To set out background facts or matters formally, especially in the recitals of a document.
reckless Acting with conscious disregard of an obvious and serious risk.
recklessness The mental state of consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a...
reclassification The transfer of an amount from one account or category to another within the financial...
reclassify To move an item from one accounting category or cost heading to another.
recognise To record an item formally in the accounts in the appropriate period.
recognition A court's acceptance of a foreign award as valid and binding, a precondition to...
recognition and enforcement The court process by which an arbitral award is given legal effect and executed against...
recognizance A defendant's written promise to appear in court that allows release without posting...
recommendation The closing SBAR element stating clearly what you want the receiver to do and by when.
recompense Compensation or reward given for loss, harm, or service.
reconcile To make two apparently conflicting things compatible, or to restore friendly relations.
reconciliation The process of matching two sets of records so that any differences are identified and...
recondite Dealing with an obscure subject known to few; little understood.
reconditioning The process of restoring physical fitness and function after a period of illness or...
reconfiguration A fundamental rearrangement of a company's activities, assets, or structure.
reconfigure To rearrange the parts or structure of something into a different configuration.
reconstitute To restore a powdered medicine to liquid form by adding a fluid.
reconstitution The process of adding a liquid to a powdered drug to prepare it for administration.
reconstruction The reorganisation of a company's structure or capital, often transferring its business...
reconvene To assemble a meeting again after an adjournment.
reconveyance The transfer of property back to the borrower once a mortgage debt has been fully repaid.
record of processing activities A documented inventory, required under Article 30, of the processing operations a...
recoup To recover or make good a loss or outlay.
recoupment A defendant's reduction of the plaintiff's claim by a counter-demand arising from the...
recourse The lender's right to claim against a borrower's other assets if the pledged collateral...
recoverable Able to be reclaimed as damages or compensation.
recoverable amount The higher of an asset's fair value less costs to sell and its value in use, used as the...
recovery of unlawful aid The obligation on a Member State to reclaim incompatible aid, with interest, from the...
recrudescence The recurrence of something undesirable, such as a disease or unrest, after a period of...
recruitment manoeuvre A transient increase in airway pressure applied to reopen collapsed alveoli and improve...
rectification The act of correcting an error, especially in a formal document.
rectify To put right an error or mistake in a record or process.
rectitude Morally correct behaviour and strict adherence to principle.
recumbency The state of an animal lying down and being unable or unwilling to rise.
recumbent Lying down in a position of rest or repose.
recuperate To recover one's health and strength after illness or an operation.
recurarisation The return of neuromuscular blockade after apparent recovery, leaving the patient...
recurrence The return of a disease or symptom after a period of improvement.
recursion A process in which a procedure is applied repeatedly to its own successive outputs.
recusal The withdrawal of a judge or adjudicator from a matter on grounds of bias or conflict.
recuse To withdraw from a case because of a conflict or an appearance of bias.
recycling The reclassification of amounts previously parked in other comprehensive income into...
red book The personal child health record given to parents to keep track of a child's growth,...
red-circling The practice of protecting an employee's existing pay when it exceeds the ceiling of a...
red flag A symptom or sign during a consultation that signals a potentially serious condition and...
red-flag symptom A feature that may signal a serious underlying condition and prompts urgent investigation...
redact To edit a document by concealing or removing sensitive parts before disclosure.
redaction The obscuring or removal of privileged or irrelevant material from a document before it...
reddendo singula singulis A construction that matches each item in one list to its corresponding item in another.
reddendum The clause in a lease reserving the rent or services payable to the grantor.
redeem a mortgage To pay off the outstanding mortgage debt in full so that the lender's charge is released.
redeemable Describing shares that the company may or must buy back on stated terms.
redemption The repayment or buying-back of shares, debt or a security, discharging the underlying...
redenominate To restate a currency or debt in a new monetary unit.
redenomination The act of changing the face value or unit of a currency, often by removing zeros.
redeploy To move an employee to a different role or location rather than dismiss them.
redeployment The reassignment of an employee to a different role, often to avoid redundancy.
Redfern A tabular schedule used to organise and rule upon the parties' document-production...
Redfern Schedule A tabular format for managing document requests, recording each request, the objections,...
rediscount The discounting of a short-term negotiable instrument that has already been discounted...
redistribution The reallocation of income or wealth, typically through taxes and transfers.
redline To mark up a contract with objections and the changes one requires.
redlining The discriminatory practice of denying credit or loans to residents of particular...
redolent Strongly smelling of something, or richly evocative of it.
redomicile To transfer a company's registered seat from one jurisdiction to another without...
redomiciliation The relocation of a company's legal seat to another jurisdiction while preserving its...
redoubt A small, often temporary, defensive fortification or stronghold.
redoubtable Formidable, especially as an opponent; commanding respect.
redress Remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance.
redressable Capable of being remedied or compensated by law.
reduce a fracture To realign the ends of a broken bone into their correct position.
reduced range of motion A limitation in how far a joint is able to move.
reduction of capital A formal procedure by which a company decreases its share capital, typically to return...
reduction to practice The point at which an invention is either actually built and shown to work or fully set...
reductionism The view that complex phenomena can be fully explained by reference to their simpler...
reductive Oversimplifying something complex by treating it in terms of a single factor.
redundancy Deliberate repetition or overlap built into communication to catch errors.
redundancy payment The compensation an employee with qualifying service is entitled to receive on being made...
redundant No longer needed or useful; also, having lost one's job because the position is no longer...
reefer A refrigerated container or truck used to carry temperature-sensitive goods.
reel To stagger or sway violently as though about to lose one's footing.
reel off To say or recite a list of things quickly and effortlessly from memory.
reengineer To redesign a business process from the ground up to achieve radical improvement.
reentry A self-perpetuating circuit in which an impulse re-excites tissue that has recovered...
refection Refreshment by food and drink; a light meal.
refeeding The reintroduction of nutrition after a period of starvation, which can trigger dangerous...
refer To send a patient to another professional or service for care.
reference The act of referring a dispute to arbitration, or the arbitral proceeding so commenced.
reference point The baseline against which outcomes are judged as gains or losses.
referendum A general vote by the electorate on a single political or legislative proposal.
referent power Influence that flows from others' admiration and desire to identify with you rather than...
referral The act of directing a patient to another clinician or service for further assessment or...
referral letter A letter written to direct a patient to another clinician or service for further...
refinance To replace an existing loan with a new one, usually on more favourable terms.
refinancing The replacement of existing debt with new borrowing, often on different terms.
reflation Deliberate policy action to expand output and lift prices back towards trend after a...
reflationary Aimed at lifting demand and prices back toward trend after a slump.
reflex An automatic muscular response to a stimulus, tested to assess nerve pathways.
reflexes Automatic muscle responses to a stimulus, tested to assess the integrity of the nervous...
reflux The backward flow of gastric contents into the oesophagus or pharynx.
refocus To redirect a company's strategy, investment, or attention toward a narrower set of...
reforecast To revise a projection of cost, time or effort in light of actual performance to date.
reformatio in peius The worsening of an appellant's position as a consequence of that party's own appeal, a...
reformation The judicial rewriting of a contract to reflect the parties' true agreement.
refoulement The return of a person to a country where they face persecution or serious harm.
refract To bend light as it passes through the eye's optical surfaces so that it focuses on the...
refraction The clinical procedure of measuring an eye's focusing error to determine the lens power...
refractive error A condition in which the eye fails to focus light precisely on the retina, causing...
refractoriness The transient period during which excitable tissue cannot be re-stimulated to fire.
refractory Stubborn or unmanageable; resistant to authority, control, or treatment.
reframe To present a product or category in a new light that favours one's position.
refreshing recollection The permitted practice of showing a witness a document to revive their memory of events.
refulgent Shining brightly; gleaming with reflected splendour.
refurbishment The cleaning, repair, and restoration of returned or used goods so they can be sold again.
refusal The act of declining or rejecting an offered treatment or intervention.
refusal to supply A dominant firm's refusal to deal with a customer or grant access to an input, which may...
refute To prove that a statement or theory is wrong by argument or evidence.
regicide The killing of a monarch.
regimen A prescribed plan setting out how and when medicines are to be taken.
register a trade mark To record a mark on an official register so as to obtain statutory protection for it.
registered design A right protecting the appearance of a product, such as its shape, contours or...
registered land Land whose ownership and interests are recorded at the Land Registry under a unique title...
registrable Satisfying the statutory requirements to be entered on an intellectual property register.
registrar A doctor training in a speciality, senior to a junior doctor.
regression A statistical method for modelling the relationship between an outcome and one or more...
regression to the mean The tendency for extreme measurements to be followed by ones closer to the average, which...
regressive Of a tax, taking a larger proportion of income from lower earners than from higher...
regret aversion The tendency to avoid decisions that could later produce a painful sense of regret.
regretted attrition Voluntary departures specifically among the employees a company most wanted to retain.
regularisation The process by which an unlawfully present migrant obtains lawful immigration status.
regularization A technique that penalises model complexity in order to prevent overfitting.
regulation A Union legislative act of general application that is binding in its entirety and...
regulatory capture The condition in which an agency comes to serve the industry it is meant to police.
regurgitation The passive retrograde flow of gastric contents into the pharynx, risking aspiration...
rehabilitate To restore a person to their fullest possible function and independence after illness or...
rehabilitation The restoration of an offender to a law-abiding life through treatment, training, or...
rehypothecate To reuse collateral pledged by a client as security for one's own borrowing.
rehypothecation A bank or broker's reuse of collateral pledged by its clients to support its own...
reification The error or process of treating an abstraction as if it were a concrete thing.
reify To treat an abstract idea or relation as if it were a concrete, material thing.
reimbursement The repayment of money spent or lost by another party.
reincorporate To form a company afresh under a new structure or in a different jurisdiction.
reinstate To restore a contract, right, or position to its former state.
reinstatement A tribunal order that a dismissed employee be given their old job back as if never...
reinstatement premium The extra premium paid to restore a reinsurance limit after a loss has eroded it.
reinsurance Insurance purchased by an insurer to transfer part of its risk to another carrier.
reinsurer A company that accepts risk ceded to it by a primary insurer.
reintermediation The return of financial flows to banks and other intermediaries after a period of...
reintubation The reinsertion of an endotracheal tube after a failed attempt at extubation.
reinvestment The application of disposal proceeds into new qualifying assets, often in order to defer...
reinvestment rate The share of operating profit a company ploughs back to fund future growth.
reinvigorate To give fresh energy and strength to something.
reissue A patent re-granted with amended claims to correct an error in the original.
reiterate To say something again to emphasise it or ensure it is understood.
rejection A refusal of an offer, which brings it to an end.
rejoinder A sharp or witty reply, especially one made in response to a criticism.
rejuvenate To restore a brand or product to renewed vitality and relevance.
relapse A return of illness after a period of improvement.
related-party transaction A deal between a company and an insider or affiliated entity, requiring extra scrutiny.
relation back The treatment of an amended pleading as filed at the date of the original for limitation...
relative afferent pupillary defect A sign, elicited by the swinging-light test, in which the affected pupil dilates rather...
relativism The view that truth or morality has no absolute standard but varies with context or...
relator action Proceedings brought by the Attorney General at the instance of a private individual who...
relay To pass on received information to another person accurately.
relent To soften a hard position and finally give way.
relevance The logical relationship whereby evidence renders a fact in issue more or less probable,...
relevant considerations The factors a decision-maker is legally required to take into account when exercising a...
relevant market The product and geographic market within which the competitive effects of conduct or a...
relever To add debt back into a valuation or beta calculation to reflect a target capital...
reliance Dependence on the truth or care of another's statement or conduct.
reliance interest The measure of damages that restores a claimant to the position they were in before...
reliction The gradual retreat of water leaving previously submerged land, which accrues to the...
relief A reduction in tax liability granted by statute.
relief from forfeiture An equitable discretion allowing a party to escape the loss of proprietary or contractual...
relief from sanctions A court's dispensation excusing a party's failure to comply with a rule, order, or...
relieving Describing a factor that lessens or eases a symptom.
relieving factors The things that make a symptom better or ease it, such as rest, medication or a...
relinquish To voluntarily give up a possession, right or position.
relish To enjoy greatly or take keen pleasure in eating something.
reluctant Unwilling and hesitant to do something.
remainder A future interest in land that takes effect in possession for a third party once a prior...
remainderman The person entitled to take an estate in remainder once the preceding interest determines.
remand To send a case back to a lower court, or hold in custody.
remand in custody To hold a defendant in prison while awaiting trial or sentence rather than releasing them...
remanufacturing The industrial rebuilding of used products to like-new condition and specification for...
remeasurement The restating of a balance or foreign-currency item at a new value on the reporting date.
remediable Capable of being remedied or put right.
remediate To correct a control weakness or deficiency so that it no longer poses a risk.
remediation The process of restoring or improving an impaired underlying skill or ability.
remedies Commitments, whether structural or behavioural, offered by merging parties to address...
remedy The relief a court can give to a wronged party, such as damages.
remifentanil An ultra-short-acting synthetic opioid metabolised by plasma esterases, giving a...
remineralisation The natural repair process in which minerals are redeposited into enamel that has been...
reminiscence The act of recalling past experiences, or a memory so recalled.
remission A temporary reduction or disappearance of disease symptoms.
remit To send a matter back to the original decision-maker for reconsideration according to law.
remittal The sending back of a matter to a lower court or tribunal for reconsideration in light of...
remittance The transfer of money, especially foreign income brought into a jurisdiction where it may...
remittance basis A regime taxing a resident non-domiciliary only on foreign income and gains actually...
remitter The restoration of a person to an earlier and better title to land they already hold...
remittitur A court's reduction of an excessive jury award, offered to the claimant as an alternative...
remodelling The progressive change in the size, shape, and function of the heart following injury or...
remonstrate To make a forcefully reproachful protest.
remorse Deep and painful regret for a wrong one has committed.
remortgage To take out a new mortgage on a property, typically to replace an existing one on better...
remoteness The limiting principle excluding recovery of loss too unforeseeable to be attributed to a...
remoteness of damage The principle that a party can recover only for loss that was reasonably foreseeable at...
removability The legal condition of being liable to removal or deportation from a state.
remunerate To pay someone for work or services rendered.
remuneration The total pay and benefits received by a director or employee for their services.
renal Relating to the kidneys.
renal colic Severe, spasmodic loin-to-groin pain caused by a stone obstructing the ureter.
renal impairment A reduction in kidney function of any degree or duration.
renal replacement therapy Extracorporeal techniques such as haemofiltration or dialysis that support kidney...
renally excreted Cleared from the body mainly by the kidneys.
rendition The transfer of a person to another state, often outside lawful extradition, for...
renege To fail to honour a promise or commitment one has made.
renewal The event of a customer extending their contract for a further term.
renounceable Of a share entitlement, capable of being surrendered or transferred to another party.
rent review A mechanism in a lease for adjusting the rent at set intervals, usually to open market...
rent-seeking The pursuit of wealth by extracting value without creating any, often through influence...
rentcharge A periodic sum charged on freehold land and payable to someone who is not the landlord.
rentier A person who lives on income from property or investments rather than from work.
renunciation A party's clear indication by words or conduct that it will not perform its obligations.
renvoi The private-international-law doctrine of referring back to another legal system's...
reorder point The inventory level at which a new purchase order should be triggered to avoid running...
reorganise To change the way something is arranged or run in order to improve it.
reoxygenation The restoration of adequate oxygen levels after a period of hypoxia.
repackaging The reboxing or relabelling of genuine branded goods, often contested when they are...
repairing covenant A clause in a lease obliging a party to keep the premises in a specified state of repair.
reparation Redress owed to a victim for a violation, encompassing compensation, restitution and...
repartee Quick, witty replies exchanged in conversation.
repast A meal, especially one considered as an occasion.
repatriate To return someone to their own country.
repatriation The return of a person to their country of nationality or origin.
repeal To revoke or annul a law formally.
repeat dispensing An arrangement allowing a patient to obtain successive supplies of a stable regular...
reperformance An audit procedure in which the auditor independently executes a control or calculation...
reperfusion The restoration of blood flow to tissue that had been deprived of it.
replenishment The process of restocking inventory to maintain agreed service levels as stock is...
replete Filled or well-supplied, especially fully fed and satisfied.
repletion The restoration of a nutrient or body store to an adequate level.
replevin An action to recover possession of goods wrongfully taken or detained.
replication The plaintiff's formal reply to the matters raised in the defendant's answer.
repolarisation The restoration of a cardiac cell's resting negative membrane potential after...
reposition To move a patient into a different position to relieve pressure and reduce the risk of...
repositioning The act of changing how a brand or product is perceived relative to competitors.
repossession The reclaiming of an asset by a lender when the borrower fails to keep up the agreed...
representation A statement of fact made to induce a party to enter a contract, which is not itself a...
representations and warranties A set of factual statements of past or present matters by which a party induces the other...
representativeness The bias of judging probability by how closely a case resembles a stereotype rather than...
represents and warrants To make a binding contractual statement of fact, coupling a representation that induces...
repricing A market-wide reassessment that shifts the level at which assets trade.
reprieve A cancellation or postponement of a punishment, especially of execution.
reprimand A formal expression of disapproval delivered by an authority.
reprioritise To reorder the relative importance of tasks or deliverables in response to changed...
reprisal Retaliatory action taken against a person for cooperating with human-rights bodies or...
reprobate An unprincipled or morally dissolute person.
reproducibility The degree to which a result can be obtained again when a study is independently repeated.
reproduction The making of copies of a protected work in any material form, an act reserved to the...
reprofile To rearrange the repayment schedule of a debt, typically by extending its maturities.
repudiate To refuse to perform or be bound by one's contractual obligations.
repudiation A party's clear refusal to perform its side of the bargain, entitling the other to...
repudiatory breach A breach that shows an intention no longer to be bound by the contract, entitling the...
repurpose To adapt something for a use other than the one it was originally intended for.
reputational Relating to the standing or good name of a person or organisation.
Request for Arbitration The initiating document by which a claimant commences arbitral proceedings under most...
request for further information A formal demand that another party clarify or elaborate on its statement of case.
requisition A formal written query raised by a buyer's solicitor requiring the seller to clarify or...
requisitions on title Formal questions raised by a buyer's solicitor to clarify or resolve issues with the...
requital A return or repayment made for a wrong or a service.
requite To return or reciprocate a feeling, especially love or kindness.
rerate To revise the valuation multiple the market applies to a company's earnings.
rerating A significant shift in the valuation multiple the market assigns a company.
res gestae Spontaneous utterances made in the immediacy of an event, received as an exception to the...
res ipsa loquitur The principle that negligence may be inferred where the accident speaks for itself.
res judicata A matter already conclusively decided that cannot be relitigated between the same parties.
resale right An artist's inalienable right to a percentage of the price when their work is resold on...
rescind To revoke, cancel or repeal a law, order or agreement.
rescind the contract To set aside a contract and restore the parties to their pre-contractual positions,...
rescindable Capable of being set aside or annulled.
rescission The cancellation of a contract, restoring the parties to their prior position.
rescissory Relating to or effecting the setting aside of a contract.
resectable Describing a tumour that can be removed surgically.
resection The surgical removal of tissue or an organ.
resentment Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.
reservation A unilateral statement by which a state excludes or modifies the legal effect of certain...
reservation of benefit A donor's retention of some enjoyment of gifted property, which keeps it within the...
reservation of rights A formal notice that acting on a contract now waives no entitlement to enforce it...
reservation of title A supply clause letting a seller retain ownership of goods until payment, defeating other...
reservation price The least favorable figure a party will accept before walking away.
reservation wage The lowest wage at which a worker is willing to accept a job.
reserve currency A currency held in large quantities by central banks to settle trade and hold reserves.
reserved matters Areas of policy retained by the central legislature and excluded from the competence of a...
reserving The actuarial process of setting aside funds to meet claims that have been incurred but...
reshoring The return of previously offshored production or sourcing to the company's home country.
reshuffle A reorganisation of roles or responsibilities among a group of people.
residence The arrangement determining which parent a child lives with on a day-to-day basis.
residual Remaining after all relevant costs, including a charge for capital, have been deducted.
residual income The profit a business earns above the required return on its capital.
residual neuromuscular blockade Incomplete recovery of muscle function persisting after anaesthesia, which predisposes...
residual risk The exposure that remains after controls and mitigations have been applied.
residual valuation A method that derives land value by deducting development costs and required profit from...
residue Material remaining in the oral cavity or pharynx after the swallow is completed.
resile To withdraw from or go back on an agreement or previously adopted position.
resilience The capacity of a supply chain to absorb shocks and recover quickly.
reskilling Training workers in new competencies to move them into different roles.
resolute Determined and unwavering in purpose.
resolution A formal decision taken by the members or directors of a company by vote.
resonance The modification of voiced sound as it passes through the pharyngeal, oral and nasal...
resonant Deep, clear and continuing to sound or echo richly.
resorption The gradual loss of tooth or bone structure through the body's own breakdown process.
resource allocation The assigning of people, budget and equipment to the tasks that need them.
resource curse The paradox whereby commodity-rich nations often grow more slowly and govern worse.
resource levelling Smoothing the plan so demand on people or equipment never exceeds what's available, even...
resource orchestration The active bundling and deployment of assets so that a resource base actually yields...
resourcing The process of assigning and balancing people, skills and assets across the work a...
respiratory Relating to breathing and the lungs.
respiratory distress A state of difficult, laboured breathing with signs of increased effort and inadequate...
respiratory failure A condition in which the respiratory system fails to maintain adequate oxygenation or...
resplendent Attractively bright and impressive.
respond to treatment To show improvement, such as tumour shrinkage, as a result of therapy.
respondeat superior The doctrine holding an employer vicariously liable for torts an employee commits within...
respondent The party against whom arbitral proceedings are brought and who is called upon to answer...
respondent's notice A document by which the successful party seeks to uphold a decision on grounds other than...
responsiveness The speed and attentiveness with which a supplier reacts to customer needs.
restaging Reassessment of the extent of a cancer after treatment or during follow-up.
restate To revise and reissue previously published financial statements to correct a material...
restatement A formal revision of previously issued financial statements to correct a material error.
restitutio in integrum The principle that damages should restore the injured party to the position they occupied...
restitution The restoration of something lost or the compensation of a wronged party.
restitutionary damages An award reversing a transfer of value from claimant to defendant, restoring what the...
restoration Any filling, inlay, crown or other material used to repair and rebuild a damaged or...
restorative Aimed at recovering lost function or ability rather than merely compensating for it.
restraint The use of physical or other means to limit a person's movement in order to prevent harm.
restraint of trade A clause limiting a person's freedom to compete or carry on business.
restricted diffusion Reduced movement of water molecules on diffusion-weighted imaging, a hallmark of acute...
restriction by effect An agreement that infringes competition law only where its actual or potential...
restriction by object An agreement so harmful to competition by its very nature that no assessment of its...
restriction of processing The data subject's right under Article 18 to have the use of their personal data limited,...
restrictive Describing a lung disorder in which reduced compliance limits expansion and lowers lung...
restrictive covenant A promise limiting what a party may do, typically after the contract has ended.
restructure To reorganise the arrangement or operation of a company or its parts.
resulting Describing a trust that arises by operation of law returning the beneficial interest to...
resulting trust A trust implied by law that returns beneficial ownership to the person who supplied the...
resuscitate To revive someone from unconsciousness or apparent death.
resuscitation The set of emergency measures used to restore breathing and circulation in a patient who...
retained earnings The cumulative profits a company has kept rather than distributing to shareholders as...
retained placenta The failure of the placenta to be expelled within a reasonable time after birth, risking...
retainer A fee paid in advance to secure someone's services or availability over a period.
retaliation Adverse treatment of an employee in response to their asserting a protected right or...
retaliatory Undertaken to strike back at a competitor's aggressive move.
retargeting Serving ads to people who visited a brand but left without converting.
retention A portion of the purchase price held back to cover possible warranty claims after...
retention bonus A payment offered to persuade a key employee to stay for a defined period, often during...
retention curve A plot showing the share of users still active over successive periods after they first...
reticent Not disposed to reveal one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved.
reticulocyte An immature red blood cell containing residual ribosomal RNA, released early from the...
reticulocytosis An elevated circulating reticulocyte count, signalling accelerated red-cell production by...
retina The light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye that converts images into nerve signals...
retinal detachment A sight-threatening emergency in which the retina peels away from the underlying tissue...
retinoid A vitamin-A derivative that regulates epidermal cell growth and differentiation, used in...
retinopathy Damage to the retina, most commonly a microvascular complication of diabetes.
retinoschisis A splitting of the neurosensory retina into two layers.
retinoscopy An objective technique for determining refractive error by observing the movement of a...
retinue A body of aides and followers attending a person of rank.
retool To re-equip or reorganise an operation for a new purpose or method.
retract To formally withdraw a statement, allegation, or admission.
retractor An instrument used to hold back the edges of a wound or organs to maintain surgical...
retrench To reduce costs and scale back operations, often by cutting jobs or exiting markets.
retrenchment The reduction of a workforce to cut costs, especially through dismissals.
retrial A second trial of a case, ordered after a mistrial or a successful appeal.
retribution Punishment imposed as a deserved response to wrongdoing, proportionate to the gravity of...
retrocession The reinsurance of a reinsurer, whereby a reinsurer cedes part of its assumed risk onward.
retrofit To add new components or features to an existing product or facility after manufacture.
retroperitoneum The anatomical space behind the peritoneum containing the kidneys, aorta, pancreas and...
retrospective Looking back on or reviewing events or records after they occurred.
return a verdict For a jury to deliver its formal decision on whether the defendant is guilty or not...
return of spontaneous circulation The restoration of a palpable pulse and effective heartbeat after resuscitation.
return on ad spend The revenue generated for every unit of currency spent on advertising.
return on invested capital A profitability measure showing the after-tax operating return a company earns on the...
return on investment A measure of the profit generated by an investment relative to its cost.
reuptake The reabsorption of a released neurotransmitter by the presynaptic neuron that secreted...
revaluation The upward restatement of an asset's carrying value to reflect its current worth.
revaluation surplus The equity reserve holding the uplift when an asset is carried at a fair value above its...
revalue To restate an asset at a new, usually higher, carrying value.
revascularisation The restoration of blood supply to ischaemic tissue by bypass surgery or angioplasty.
revenue recognition The accounting principles that determine when and how much revenue can be recorded in the...
reverberate To resound or echo repeatedly, especially off surrounding surfaces.
reverence A feeling of deep respect mingled with awe.
reverie A state of pleasant, absorbed daydreaming.
reversal The undoing of a payment so the money returns to the payer.
reverse auction A bidding process in which competing suppliers drive the price down to win the buyer's...
reverse break fee The penalty an acquirer owes the target if the buyer walks away from an agreed deal.
reverse burden A statutory provision placing the legal burden of proving a particular matter on the...
reverse engineering The analysis of a product to uncover its design or method of manufacture, sometimes a...
reverse passing off Misrepresenting another's goods as one's own by stripping or swapping out their original...
reverse termination fee A sum the buyer must pay the target if the deal collapses on the buyer's side, typically...
reverse triangular merger A structure in which the acquirer's shell subsidiary merges into the target, leaving the...
reversible Capable of being undone or returned to a previous state.
reversion The interest an owner keeps in land that returns to them once a lesser estate ends.
reversionary Relating to an interest in land that will fall into possession when a prior estate comes...
reversioner The person entitled to the reversion, that is, to whom the land returns once a lesser...
revert to you To get back to someone with a reply or the information they requested.
reverter The interest that remains in and returns to a grantor upon the natural determination of a...
review within A phrase used in a recommendation to specify the exact timeframe in which action is...
revitalise To give new life and energy to a declining brand.
revocability The capacity of an offer or arrangement to be withdrawn before acceptance.
revocation The formal cancellation of a visa, permit or grant of status previously issued.
revoke To officially cancel or withdraw something previously granted, such as consent.
revoke a patent To cancel a granted patent, typically on the ground that it should never have been...
revolver A borrower who carries a balance on a credit card from month to month rather than...
revolving credit facility A committed line of credit that the borrower may repeatedly draw, repay and redraw up to...
revolving door The movement of personnel back and forth between regulators and the firms they oversee.
rewarming The active restoration of a patient's core temperature after it has fallen.
rework Additional work needed to correct defective output so that it meets specification.
rezoning The reclassification of land to permit a different category of use under planning rules.
rhabdomyolysis The breakdown of skeletal muscle releasing myoglobin and other contents into the...
rhabdomyosarcoma A malignant tumour arising from skeletal-muscle precursor cells.
rhetoric The art of using language persuasively and effectively, sometimes implying showy or...
rheumatoid arthritis An autoimmune disease causing chronic inflammation of the joints, typically symmetrically.
rhinolith A calcified concretion formed within the nasal cavity, often around a retained foreign...
rhinoplasty Surgery to reshape the external nose for functional or aesthetic reasons.
rhinorrhoea A free discharge of thin nasal mucus from the nostrils.
rhinosinusitis Inflammation of the nasal mucosa and paranasal sinuses, occurring in acute and chronic...
rhizome A horizontal underground stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.
rho The sensitivity of an option's price to a change in interest rates.
rhonchi Low-pitched, snoring-like sounds heard on auscultation, usually caused by secretions in...
rhotic Relating to or denoting an r-type sound.
Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale A validated ten-point scale used to titrate sedation by grading a patient's level of...
rider An additional clause or document attached to and forming part of a contract.
rift A serious break in previously friendly relations.
right of access The data subject's right under Article 15 to obtain confirmation that their data is being...
right of first refusal A holder's entitlement to match any third-party offer before the asset can be sold...
right of re-entry A landlord's or grantor's right to resume possession on breach of a condition.
right of set-off The entitlement to reduce a sum owed to another party by deducting a cross-claim or...
right-of-use asset A lessee's capitalized entitlement to use a leased item over the lease term.
right of way A type of easement entitling a person to pass over another's land along a defined route.
right-size To adjust an organization or cost base to the level actually needed.
right to data portability The data subject's right under Article 20 to receive their personal data in a structured,...
right to erasure The data subject's right under Article 17 to have their personal data deleted in certain...
right to object The data subject's right under Article 21 to object to processing based on legitimate...
right to rectification The data subject's right under Article 16 to have inaccurate personal data corrected and...
right upper quadrant pain Pain in the upper right region of the abdomen, classically arising from the gallbladder...
righteousness The quality of being morally upright and acting justly.
rights issue An offer of new shares to existing shareholders in proportion to their current holdings.
rightsize To adjust a company's workforce or operations to the size deemed optimal, usually by...
rightsizing The restructuring of a workforce to what management deems an optimal size, usually a...
rigidity A sustained increase in muscle tone giving uniform resistance to passive movement...
rigor Strict thoroughness and precision applied to the methods and evidence underlying an...
rigorous Marked by exhaustive precision and strict adherence to method.
rigors Episodes of violent, uncontrollable shivering that accompany a rapidly rising fever,...
rime A white crust of frost formed from freezing fog or mist.
ring-enhancing lesion A lesion with a peripheral rim of contrast enhancement surrounding a non-enhancing centre.
ring-fence To protect an asset from division by treating it as separate from the shared marital pot.
ring-fencing Legally isolating certain assets or operations so their risks cannot spill into the rest...
ringfence To protect a budget or resource by reserving it exclusively for a designated purpose.
rip-and-replace A sale that displaces an entrenched incumbent system in its entirety.
riparian Relating to or situated on the bank of a river or stream.
riparian rights The rights of an owner of land abutting a watercourse to use the water and to the flow...
ripeness The requirement that a controversy be sufficiently developed and concrete before a court...
riposte A quick, sharp reply or retaliatory remark.
risible Deserving to be laughed at, usually through absurdity rather than intent.
risk appetite The amount and type of risk an organization is willing to accept in pursuit of its goals.
risk assessment A structured evaluation of the danger a patient poses to themselves or others.
risk pooling Consolidating demand variability across locations or products so the aggregate buffer...
risk register A living document that logs each identified project risk together with its likelihood,...
risks and benefits The potential harms and advantages of a proposed treatment, which must be explained so...
rivalrous Marked by intense competition between contenders.
rivalry Sustained competition between firms contending for the same customers.
rizz Charisma, especially the effortless kind that works in flirting.
roadshow A series of presentations to prospective investors ahead of a securities offering.
robust Strong and reliable, holding up under scrutiny or varied conditions.
robustness The capacity of a model, plan, or system to continue performing reliably despite errors,...
rocuronium A non-depolarising aminosteroid muscle relaxant offering rapid onset and reversible by...
roll out a campaign To launch a coordinated marketing effort, often in planned stages across markets.
roll-up A financing device converting a lender's pre-insolvency debt into new post-filing loans...
rollator A wheeled walking frame, usually with brakes and a seat, used to aid mobility.
rollback The reversal of a change to restore the previous known-good state when a release fails.
rolldown The gain or loss earned as a bond or futures position ages toward maturity along the...
rolled edge A raised, rounded, pearly border surrounding an ulcerated lesion, classically seen in...
rolled-up plea A defamation defence asserting that statements of fact are true and that comments on them...
rollforward A schedule reconciling an account's opening balance to its closing balance through the...
rolling-wave planning Planning imminent work in fine detail while leaving later phases deliberately coarse...
rollout The phased release of a product, service or change across users or locations.
rollover The deferral of a gain achieved by reinvesting the proceeds in a qualifying replacement...
rollover equity The portion of sale proceeds that selling owners reinvest as a stake in the buyer's...
rollover relief A relief deferring the tax on a gain where the disposal proceeds are reinvested in...
rollup A consolidated summary that combines lower-level figures into a higher-level total.
Romalpa clause A clause reserving ownership of goods to the seller until payment is received.
room to manoeuvre The scope a party has to change its position or make concessions.
root canal treatment A procedure that removes infected or dead pulp from within the tooth, then cleans, shapes...
root cause The underlying reason a problem occurs, as distinct from its visible symptoms.
root cause analysis A structured investigation to find the underlying reason a problem occurred rather than...
root planing The deep cleaning of the root surfaces beneath the gum to remove calculus and diseased...
rope in To persuade someone, often reluctantly, to take part in an activity or help with a task.
rostering The planning and allocation of employees to shifts or duties across a working period.
rotate injection sites To vary the place where insulin is injected to prevent damage to the fatty tissue under...
rotation The mandatory periodic replacement of an audit firm or partner to preserve independence.
rouleaux Stacked, coin-like aggregations of red cells on a blood film, typically caused by raised...
round-tripping The use of reciprocal, economically hollow transactions to inflate reported revenue and...
route of administration The way a medicine is given to the patient, such as by mouth or by injection.
royal prerogative The residue of discretionary powers historically vested in the Crown and now exercised...
royalty A payment made for the use of a work, patent, or resource.
royalty-free Describing a licence for which no ongoing per-use or per-sale payment is required.
rubber-stamp To approve a proposal automatically without genuine scrutiny.
rubeosis Abnormal new vessel formation on the iris, typically driven by retinal ischaemia.
rubric A heading or set of criteria under which something is classified or assessed.
rugose Wrinkled, ridged or deeply corrugated.
rule against bias The requirement that a decision-maker be free from actual or apparent bias when...
rule of law The principle that everyone, including the government, is subject to and accountable...
rule out To exclude a particular diagnosis through examination or investigation before considering...
ruminate To turn a matter over repeatedly in the mind.
rumination Repetitive, circling thought about distress and its causes.
run in the family To be a condition or trait that occurs in several members of the same family, suggesting...
run-off The state of an insurer or book of business that has stopped writing new policies and is...
run-off cover Insurance kept in force after a deal to answer claims arising from acts before closing.
run rate Current performance annualized as if the latest period simply repeated for a full year.
run something by To share an idea or proposal with someone to get their opinion or approval.
runbook A documented set of step-by-step procedures for executing a routine or recovery operation.
running balance The continuously updated stock total for a controlled drug, recorded after each receipt...
running suture A continuous line of stitching worked from a single thread and tied only at each end.
runway The time a firm can operate before it runs out of cash.
rupture of membranes The breaking of the amniotic sac, which may occur spontaneously or be performed to...
russet Of a reddish-brown colour.
rusticate To go to live in or retire to the countryside.
rustout Chronic disengagement and boredom caused by unchallenging work, as opposed to burnout.

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