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objection

noun

A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A concern or reason a prospect gives for hesitating to buy.

Price is rarely the real objection; usually it is timing.

Similar: concern, pushback

Topic: Sales in Business 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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