modus operandi
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A characteristic method of operating that links a series of offences to a suspect.
The burglaries shared a modus operandi distinctive enough to point to a single hand.
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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