red-circling
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The practice of protecting an employee's existing pay when it exceeds the ceiling of a newly assigned grade, freezing it rather than cutting it.
After the job-evaluation exercise downgraded her role, red-circling kept her salary intact until the band's maximum caught up.
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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