material breach
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A breach sufficiently serious that it deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract and commonly triggers a right to terminate.
Persistent late payment was held to be a material breach entitling the licensor to terminate on notice.
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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