supra

CEFRC1

/sˈuprə/

adverb · noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Clipping of supranational.
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The word 'supra' is often used in legal texts to refer to something above.
Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras.

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Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books
This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras.
2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147
When I met Bejan and Enver at the supra, they enthusiastically told me that I was about to experience true Georgian hospitality.
2006, Mathijs Pelkmans, Defending the Border, part II, chapter v, 125
We might add here the tendency of kinto poetry to be associated with articulating and eliciting love and desire (whether heterosexual, homoerotic or homosexual), as well as the noted homoeroticism of the supra ritual itself with which the kinto is associated.
2011, Paul Manning, Zaza Shatirishvili, “The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City”, in Tsypylma Darieva et al., editors, Urban Spaces after Socialism, 279
The supra became the symbol of hospitality manifested by a particular way of eating, drinking and feasting in which guests are treated with outmost^([sic]) attention.
2013, Adrian Brisku, Bittersweet Europe, chapter i, 14

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Borrowed from Latin suprā.