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low-hanging fruit

noun

A2CEFR level
8/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

The easiest, quickest wins available that deliver disproportionate value for minimal effort.

Consolidating those two contracts is low-hanging fruit worth about four million.

Similar: quick win

Topic: Consulting in Business English

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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