tariff
A2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The minimum custodial period an offender must serve before release may be considered.
The court set a tariff of fifteen years before he could apply for parole.
Business noun
A tax imposed by a government on imported goods, typically to protect domestic industry or raise revenue.
The new tariff on steel imports raised input costs for every manufacturer in the sector.
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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