prorogue
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To discontinue a session of a legislature without dissolving it.
The Crown may prorogue Parliament on the advice of ministers, bringing the session to a close.
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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