wasted costs
B2CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Costs a court orders a legal representative to bear personally for improper or negligent conduct of a case.
Counsel's unmeritorious application collapsed so badly that the judge made a wasted costs order against the firm.
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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