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refreshing recollection

noun

B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

The permitted practice of showing a witness a document to revive their memory of events.

He'd forgotten the figures, so I handed him his diary for refreshing recollection.

Similar: refreshing memory

Topic: Evidence & procedure 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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