overreach
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To sweep a beneficiary's equitable interest off the land and transfer it to the purchase money on a sale by trustees.
Paying the price to two trustees overreached the beneficiaries' interests, so the buyer took the land free of them.
Business noun
The act of extending one's authority or ambition beyond a safe or proper limit.
The failed expansion was a classic case of overreach, chasing five markets before mastering one.
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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