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pare

verb/peə/

B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To reduce something gradually by removing what is inessential.

They pared the approval chain down to a single sign-off to speed up hiring.

Similar: trim, whittle

Topic: Management & organisation 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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