quarantine
A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
Isolation imposed to stop the spread of disease.
Arrivals faced two weeks of quarantine.
Business verb
To hold goods separately and out of use until they are inspected and cleared.
Any batch failing the first test is quarantined until quality engineers sign it off.
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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