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no-action letter

noun

C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A regulatory staff assurance that it will not recommend enforcement against a specifically described course of conduct.

We got a no-action letter blessing the resale structure before anyone touched the shares.

Topic: Banking & finance law in Legal English

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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