proximate
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law adjective
Being the direct and effective cause of an injury in an unbroken sequence of events.
The court identified the driver's inattention as the proximate cause of the collision.
Business adjective
Describing the dominant, effective cause of a loss that determines whether a policy responds.
The court held that storm, not the pre-existing defect, was the proximate cause of the collapse.
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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