preclude
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine verb
To prevent or make impossible a particular option or outcome.
Her frailty precludes any consideration of surgical intervention.
Business verb
To prevent something from happening or make it impossible.
A signed non-compete precluded the former partner from advising any of the firm's existing clients.
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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