purposive interpretation
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
An approach to construing legislation that gives effect to the purpose the provision was intended to achieve.
A purposive interpretation of the section supported reading it consistently with the Act's overall scheme.
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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