lock-in
A2CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
A situation in which switching costs keep customers tied to a supplier.
The platform's deep lock-in gave it the pricing power that made the acquisition so attractive.
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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