overheat
A2CEFR level
12/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
For an economy to grow so fast that it strains capacity and triggers rising inflation.
The bank raised rates pre-emptively out of concern that the economy was starting to overheat.
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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