nonfeasance
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The failure to perform an act that one is under a legal duty to do.
Liability for pure nonfeasance is rare, since the common law seldom imposes a duty to act positively.
Business noun
The failure to perform a duty that one is legally obligated to carry out.
The directors' nonfeasance in ignoring repeated audit warnings exposed them to personal liability.
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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