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pressing social need

noun

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The standard of necessity that an interference with a Convention right must meet to be justified in a democratic society.

The government failed to demonstrate any pressing social need for so sweeping a restriction.

Topic: Constitutional & public in Legal 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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