tolerance
A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A reduced response to a medicine after repeated use, needing a higher dose for the same effect.
Over time some patients develop tolerance, so the earlier dose no longer relieves the pain.
Business noun
The permitted deviation from plan a manager may absorb before an issue must be escalated upward.
We're inside cost tolerance, so I don't need to trouble the sponsor yet.
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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