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reasonably foreseeable

phrase

B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Describing harm of a kind that an ordinary prudent person would have anticipated as a possible consequence.

It was reasonably foreseeable that leaving the spillage unmarked would cause a customer to slip.

Topic: Tort 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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