ombudsman
B1CEFR level
32/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
An independent official who investigates complaints of maladministration against the Union institutions.
The complainant referred the matter to the European Ombudsman.
Business noun
An independent official appointed to investigate complaints and mediate disputes impartially.
The company appointed an internal ombudsman to handle grievances the compliance line missed.
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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