subpoena
B1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A writ ordering a person to attend court.
The firm was served a subpoena for its records.
Business noun
A formal order compelling a person to give testimony or produce documents.
The regulator issued a subpoena for every email exchanged during the disputed merger talks.
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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