reference point
A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The baseline against which outcomes are judged as gains or losses.
Last year's bonus became the reference point, so a smaller but still generous payout felt like a cut.
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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