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perishable

adjective/ˈpɛrɪʃəbl/

A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

Liable to spoil or decay quickly and so requiring careful, timely handling.

Perishable produce is routed through refrigerated hubs to reach shelves before it turns.

Topic: Operations & supply chain 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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