mixed-motive
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing a decision driven by both lawful and unlawful reasons, which shifts the burden of proof to the employer.
Even if performance mattered, this is a mixed-motive case because his complaint plainly factored into the firing.
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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