mitigation
C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The duty to take reasonable steps to reduce one's loss.
Damages were cut because the claimant failed in mitigation.
Business noun
A planned action taken to reduce the probability or severity of an identified risk.
Our mitigation for the single-supplier risk is to qualify a second vendor before the build phase.
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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