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  • noun sports A major professional sporting league, often with a strong commercial bias.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ league

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Examples

  • The survey, carried out for management consultancy PA Consulting, predicts the emergence of a British Ivy League – a "superleague of strong institutions".

    Two universities may opt out of state system 2011

  • The survey, carried out for management consultancy PA Consulting, predicts the emergence of a British Ivy League – a "superleague of strong institutions".

    Two universities may opt out of state system 2011

  • By the late 1990s economists and business analysts, alerted by the superleague profits of previously workaday stores, were taking a closer look.

    Why fast fashion is slow death for the planet 2011

  • But you have to read to para 92 of the BBC report to find reference to the UK's promotion to the Satanic superleague.

    OPEN THREAD. 2009

  • The acquisition would give it control of a group which, after UniCredit SpA and Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, would be the third member of Italy's banking superleague.

    Welcome, sovereign investor, 2008

  • Both Barclays and National Westminster have since pulled back, fingers charred by their failure to join the investment-banking superleague.

    The Scottish Widow Is Swept Off Her Feet 2008

  • The only real threat to the NHL is if there were a European superleague but that apparently isn't possible right now, and with the NHL considering expansion into Europe, one has to wonder how long the KHL could be perceived as a significant threat.

    Archive 2008-07-01 James Mirtle 2008

  • MORE FANTASY COVERAGE Fantasy's Disabled List Detectives The Mitchell Report's Bargain Bin More MLB scores, stats and stories But say you joined a league at work on a whim, and now face a sea of unfamiliar statistical categories because of an overzealous owner who thought it would be fun to have a 26-category superleague.

    The Evolution from Homers to Holds 2008

  • Whitaker, the UK No 2-ranked rider, had the best performance in the Hickstead Nations Cup superleague team event and is key to Britain's challenge at the penultimate leg on Aug 5.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The instant you meet Elle, you understand what puts her in the superleague of supermodels.

    The Lingerie Post Krista 2010

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