stalemate
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A deadlock in which neither party can advance or force a resolution.
The mediator was brought in to break a stalemate that had stalled the project for months.
Business noun
A situation in which neither side can advance and no agreement is reached.
The talks settled into a stalemate until a neutral facilitator was brought in.
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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