zero-hours
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Describing a contract that guarantees no minimum hours, leaving pay dependent on work offered.
Staff on zero-hours contracts never know from one week to the next what they will earn.
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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