Collocations for "maximum"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "maximum" in context.
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maximum
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a maximum of [three] [attempts, years, hours, points]
- would spend a maximum of [$40] (on)
- is worth a maximum of [$40]
- [in excess of, over, past] the maximum
- [exceeded, fell short of] the maximum (by fifty dollars)
- each [member, player, contestant] has a maximum of
- [allow, assign, give] a maximum of
- [fill, load] it up to the maximum
- [raise, lower, increase, decrease] the maximum
- the maximum of permitted [tries, entries, imports]
- [thirty] [passengers, guests, students], at a maximum
- you can have [five] minutes, maximum
- math: the [relative, absolute, local] maximum
- the maximum [amount, number, quantity, level] (of)
- [lower, raise, increase, decrease] the maximum [amount] (of)
- the maximum [size, limit, age, price] (for)
- the maximum [distance, height, length, depth, width]
- the maximum speed [allowed, permitted] by law
- [has, reaches] a maximum speed of
- has [reached, hit] the maximum limit (of)
- a maximum sentence of (25 years)
- maximum [satisfaction, comfort, enjoyment] (guaranteed)
- [designed, made] for maximum [satisfaction]
- the maximum [bid, offer] was ($500,000)
'maximum' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
absolute
- acceptable
- achieve
- advisory
- bid
- capacity
- character
- clearance
- close
- comfort
- crank
- determine
- dispatch
- distance
- do
- dryer
- ease
- engineer
- equal
- estimate
- exceed
- extent
- flow
- height
- jail
- lending
- lifespan
- lining
- load
- maintain
- output
- penalty
- plate
- point
- prison
- prosecution
- prosecutor
- quantity
- reach
- relative
- resolution
- sanitation
- security
- seventeen
- seventy
- site
- sixteen
- sixty
- speed
- stage