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The phrase "absolute ceiling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing limits or maximum thresholds, often in technical, financial, or architectural discussions.
Example: "The absolute ceiling for the project budget has been set at $1 million, beyond which no additional funds will be allocated."
Alternatives: "maximum limit" or "ultimate cap".
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absolute ceiling
noun
The maximum altitude above sea level that an aircraft or missile can maintain horizontal flight under normal conditions.
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The New Yorker, August 4 , 1945P. 17 Time Magazine is approaching the absolute ceiling of classification.
By Charles W. Morton The New Yorker, August 4 , 1945P. 17 Time Magazine is approaching the absolute ceiling of classification.
Quotas raise prices just as tariffs do, but, being set in physical terms, their impact on imports is direct, with an absolute ceiling set on quantity.
The supervisor imposed an absolute ceiling on the loans even those classified as low-risk under Basel 2 that each bank could make for a given capital base.
Mr Botin, however, is expected to try to reassure unions that this is an absolute ceiling on redundancies and is likely to compare such cuts with the 9,000 losses which are feared if HBOS launches a successful counter-bid for the British mortgage bank.
"An absolute ceiling is an absolute ceiling.
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The owners also want a hard salary cap — i.e., an absolute payroll ceiling with no cap "exceptions" — to replace the soft-cap model.
By contrast, the league's reset offer would include an absolute salary ceiling, set $5 million above the average team payroll.
The "reset" proposal features a flex-cap system that contains an absolute salary ceiling — to be set $5 million above the average team salary.
To tackle what it perceived to be an inequitable and unsustainable system, the N.B.A. first proposed an absolute payroll ceiling for every team, modeled after the N.F.L.'s.
The judge, who told the jury to remember that "we are not here to judge Mr. Polanski's personal lifestyle," put an "absolute maximum ceiling" of £200,000 ($348,220) on damages and sent the panel to deliberate.
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