liberty clause
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A clause in a bill of lading or charterparty permitting the carrier to depart from the direct route, call at additional ports, or take other specified steps without it constituting a breach.
The owners relied on the liberty clause to justify bunkering at an intermediate port.
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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