nolo contendere
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A plea by which a defendant accepts conviction without admitting guilt.
He pleaded nolo contendere to keep the conviction from being used against him in the civil suit.
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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