lien
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A right to keep property until a debt on it is paid.
The garage placed a lien on the unpaid-for car.
Business noun
A legal right to retain possession of a debtor's property until an outstanding debt is discharged.
The bank held a lien over the vessel until the shipping loan was repaid in full.
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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