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rare

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UK /reə(r)/US /rer/
adjective

not done, seen, happening, etc. very often

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It is very rare for a Japanese company to be raised as an example of how to manage large, sweeping changes, such as Rakuten's Englishization.

Hiroshi Mikitani Talks Englishnization at Harvard Business School

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