squeeze
A2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
An argument trapping a patentee between invalidity and non-infringement, since any reading wide enough to catch the defendant also catches the prior art.
The defence ran a classic squeeze, saying that if the claim covered their process it was anticipated by an earlier textbook.
Business noun
A sharp price rise that forces those who are short to buy back at a loss.
A short squeeze in the borrowed stock forced the hedge fund to cover at ruinous prices.
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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