tragedy of the commons
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The depletion of a shared resource by individuals each acting in rational self-interest.
Overfished to collapse, the bank is a tragedy of the commons no single trawler will fix.
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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