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proscribed

adjective/prəˈskraɪbd/

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Officially forbidden or banned, especially of an organisation whose membership bars a person from admission.

His affiliation with a proscribed organisation rendered him inadmissible on security grounds.

Similar: banned, prohibited

Topic: Immigration law 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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