mutual forbearance
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Tacit restraint among rivals who avoid aggression because they meet one another in multiple markets.
There's an unspoken mutual forbearance keeping both of us from starting a price war neither could win.
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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