recusal
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The withdrawal of a judge or adjudicator from a matter on grounds of bias or conflict.
The application for recusal was refused, the judge finding no real possibility of bias.
Business noun
A director's stepping back from a decision in which they hold a conflicting interest.
Given his stake in the target, his recusal from the acquisition vote was the only defensible move.
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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