retrospective
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Looking back on or reviewing events or records after they occurred.
A retrospective review of the admission notes clarified the timeline for the referral letter.
Business noun
A structured review at the end of an iteration in which a team reflects on what to improve.
The retrospective surfaced the same handover pain twice running, so we finally reworked the process.
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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