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segregation of duties

noun

C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Splitting a task among several people so no one person controls a whole risky process.

Poor segregation of duties let the same clerk both approve and pay the invoices.

Similar: separation of duties

Topic: Governance in Business English

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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