normative
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Relating to how things ought to be rather than how they actually are.
The distinction between descriptive and normative claims is often blurred.
Business adjective
Concerned with what should be done according to a standard or ideal, rather than with describing what actually happens.
The paper shifted from a normative account of how firms should allocate capital to a descriptive study of how they actually do.
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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