supercatastrophe
English
Etymology
super- + catastrophe
Noun
supercatastrophe (plural supercatastrophes)
- (rare) A very severe, widespread catastrophe.
- 1980, United States. Congress. House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, Earthquake Insurance Availability, U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 727:
- Insurance underwriters very often take the same optimistic view as property owners and in many countries underestimate the long term annual cost for the rare supercatastrophes.