postponement
A2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The subordination of one creditor's claim behind another's in order of payment.
The shareholder loan was subject to a deed of postponement behind the bank facility.
Business noun
Deliberately delaying final product configuration or assembly until customer demand is known, so inventory risk shrinks.
We paint the units only after orders land, so postponement keeps us from betting on the wrong color mix.
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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