preferential
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Describing a category of unsecured claim, such as certain employee entitlements, that ranks ahead of ordinary creditors.
The employees' unpaid wages were treated as preferential and paid before the general body of creditors.
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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