time of the essence
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A stipulation making punctual performance a condition, so that any delay justifies termination.
Serve notice making time of the essence, and a single day's slippage lets us walk away.
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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