secession
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The formal withdrawal of a region or group from a larger political body.
Talk of secession grew as the province chafed under central rule.
Law noun
The formal withdrawal of a region or state from a larger political union.
The constitution contained no lawful mechanism for the unilateral secession of a province.
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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