ring-fence
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
To protect an asset from division by treating it as separate from the shared marital pot.
We sought to ring-fence the business, arguing it had been established long before the marriage.
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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