right of set-off
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
The entitlement to reduce a sum owed to another party by deducting a cross-claim or amount owed in the opposite direction.
The customer exercised its right of set-off, deducting the cost of remedial works from the final invoice.
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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