restraint
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The use of physical or other means to limit a person's movement in order to prevent harm.
Restraint was used only as a last resort after all de-escalation attempts had failed.
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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