relinquish
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To voluntarily give up a possession, right or position.
She reluctantly relinquished control of the company she had founded.
Business verb
To voluntarily give up control, possession, or a right.
The founder found it agonising to relinquish day-to-day control to the new chief executive.
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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