sprawl
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To sit or lie with the limbs spread out awkwardly or carelessly.
The dog sprawled across the doorway, refusing to be moved.
Business noun
Uncontrolled, untidy expansion of a structure beyond a manageable size.
Acquisition after acquisition produced an organisational sprawl no single leader could see across.
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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