Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rising to a great height.
- adjective Unusually extravagant, affected, or ambitious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extravagant in conduct, aims, or pretensions; having lofty notions; going or carried to extremes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Extravagant in opinions or ambition.
- adjective Flying at a high altitude; -- of airplanes.
- adjective Having an excessively high cost or perceived value; temporarily very successful; -- of objects with respect to a market and people in their occupations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characteristic of a
highflier
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
- adjective moving upward or along at a considerable height
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Examples
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"Well! I shall see big Davey, perhaps, but don't you think 'highflying' would suit me better, although I know little about it?"
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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A group of commercial real-estate heavyweights that made a big play on the distressed market earlier this year by buying into LNR Property Corp. has now tapped two executives who helped run Deutsche Bank AG's highflying commercial-property business, according to people familiar with the matter.
LNR Taps Vets of Deutsche Bank Lingling Wei 2010
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Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn , of Greenlight Capital Inc., has pushed to deflate the highflying shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., criticizing them recently at a prominent investor gathering.
Zero Hour in Coffee Clash Steve Eder 2011
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After an NFL season that celebrated highflying offenses and cartoonish statistics, this would be a day of defense, and hoping for a sudden opportunity.
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For highflying technology companies, a "low float" strategy is becoming a common theme, but it has also fueled some observers' concerns of another tech-stock bubble.
Tech IPOs Take Low-Float Tack. A High-Risk Move? Steven Russolillo 2011
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STOCKHOLM — With Sweden's central bank set to keep pushing interest rates higher, the country's exporters are growing nervous that their already highflying currency will rise too high for their comfort.
Swedish Exporters Brace for Krona's Rise Charles Duxbury 2011
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John Chambers , the veteran chief executive of Cisco Systems Inc., confessed the once highflying technology company has lost its focus, lacks discipline and needs to overhaul its operations.
Chambers Vows 'Fix' as Cisco Stumbles Cari Tuna 2011
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Meanwhile, the rout in commodities and jitters about global growth have killed investor appetite for formerly highflying currencies like the Australian and Canadian dollars.
Rising Dollar: Headwind for U.S. Growth Kelly Evans 2011
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When Enron collapsed and the dotcom bust eliminated some highflying trading platforms, ICE saw its business boom.
ICE Provides Power for Nasdaq's Bid Carolyn Cui 2011
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That said, surging demand for the latest batch of highflying tech companies combined with a limited supply of shares tend to prompt soaring valuations.
Tech IPOs Take Low-Float Tack. A High-Risk Move? Steven Russolillo 2011
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