renege
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To fail to honour a promise or commitment one has made.
When the contractor reneged on the completion date, the employer treated the delay as a repudiatory breach.
Business verb
To go back on a promise or agreed term.
If they renege on the exclusivity now, we walk and keep the deposit.
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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