tying
B2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
Making the purchase of one product conditional on buying a separate product, which may be abusive when practised by a dominant firm.
Bundling the media player with the operating system was condemned as unlawful tying.
Business noun
The practice of selling one product only on condition that the buyer also purchases a second.
Bundling the operating system with the browser drew antitrust scrutiny as unlawful tying.
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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