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super-maximum, a. chiefly U.S.
Brit. |ˌs(j)uːp(ə)rˈmaksɪməm|, U.S. |ˌsupərˈmæksəməm|
[‹ super- prefix + maximum adj. With sense 2 compare earlier super-max adj.]
1. Greater than the expected or conventional maximum; extremely or exceptionally high or large. Esp. in super-maximum security (cf. sense 2).
1917Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Jrnl. (Electronic text) 9 June This increase of birds may be of great economic value this year when a..super-maximum crop in all lines is so urgently needed. 1954Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 29379/2, I once asked..[the] warden of Folsom, California's super maximum-security prison, how many of his 2,600 men were too dangerous to be at large in the prison yard. 1984Washington Post (Nexis) 14 June (Virginia Weekly) 4 A mass mailing offering ‘super maximum strength’ stimulants at moderate prices. 1998N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Feb. 29/1 He canceled plans to build a super-maximum security penitentiary at Tupper Lake.
2. = super-max adj.
1983United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 22 Apr. Laramee said the inmate had a record of violence at two other prisons and should have been sent to a ‘super-maximum institution, where contact with personnel and inmates are [sic] not so frequent’. 1991N.Y. Times 15 Nov. a15/1 Some states..have converted an entire prison into a super-maximum instititution while other states are using a prison wing for this purpose. 2004S. B. Bright in H. A. Bedau & P. G. Cassell Debating Death Penalty vi. 154 Today the United States has..‘super maximum’ prisons where serial killers, mass murderers, and sadistic murderers can be severely punished and completely isolated from guards and other inmates. |