severability
C1CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The quality that lets the rest of a contract survive even when one clause is struck down.
Thanks to the severability provision, voiding the non-compete left the remaining terms intact.
Business noun
The feature of a contract whereby, if one provision is void, the remaining terms survive.
A severability clause meant the unenforceable non-compete did not sink the entire agreement.
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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