material breach

1. 1.

   a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract

   Broaderbreach of contract

Questions about material breach

What does material breach mean?

material breach means "a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract".

Is material breach a common word?

material breach is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.