Vokabahn

die Schweigepflicht

B1 Noun frequency rank #10,650

What Schweigepflicht means

Noun

  1. duty of confidentiality
  2. vow of silence
  3. confidentiality requirement (e.g. physician-patient, attorney-client, or priest–penitent privilege)

Forms

die Schweigepflicht · die Schweigepflichten

Plural: Schweigepflichten

Pronunciation

Schweigepflicht in a sentence

Im Krankenhaus unterliegen alle Mitarbeiter der Schweigepflicht.

At the hospital all staff are bound by a duty of confidentiality.

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Schweigepflicht is B1 German — intermediate vocabulary, ranked #10,650 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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