provenance
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The documented history of an item's origin and successive custody, bearing on its authenticity.
Gaps in the painting's provenance cast serious doubt on the vendor's claim to good title.
Business noun
A documented record of where goods originated and how they changed hands.
Luxury buyers now demand full provenance so they can be sure the leather is not counterfeit.
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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