Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective First-rate; excellent.
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- adjective Of the highest quality;
excellent ,first-rate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the highest quality
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Examples
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A piece of software can insert the phrase "top-notch outing" in an article.
Slate Magazine Farhad Manjoo 2011
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I thought we had a top-notch investigative staff, and I happily dug into the documents and ran the hearings.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I thought we had a top-notch investigative staff, and I happily dug into the documents and ran the hearings.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I thought we had a top-notch investigative staff, and I happily dug into the documents and ran the hearings.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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"It's a double-edged sword, having the luxury of a lot of top-notch talent," pitcher Phil Hughes said.
How Much Credit Does He Deserve? Mike Sielski 2011
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Last month's reversal in some key economic indicators, the debt-ceiling debacle, the downgrade of the U.S.'s top-notch credit rating and the European debt crisis all conspired to send confidence tumbling.
Search Continues for the Bold U.S. Consumer David Reilly 2011
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But the cast was top-notch and in Freddie and Bel I haven't seen such unexploded chemistry since Grace Kelly nursed James Stewart's broken leg in Rear Window.
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Doesn't the Fifth Republic share those top-notch, triple-A ratings with the U.S., but—a crucial difference—with the emollient 'stable outlooks' that mean the Great Arbiters at Standard & Poor's and Moody's are relaxed about it keeping them?
It's Not So Far-Fetched To Be Worried About France David Cottle 2011
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Its top-notch security and communications network appealed to Tillman and national security advisers.
Air Force One pilot's 9/11 mission: Keep president safe 2011
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Its top-notch security and communications network appealed to Tillman and national security advisers.
Air Force One pilot's 9/11 mission: Keep president safe 2011
bilby commented on the word top-notch
"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort - tombs to hold bookworms. Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth. Dons who work for proctors or provosts do not fob off school to work on crossroads, nor do dons go off to dorm rooms to loll on cots. Dons go crosstown to look for bookshops known to stock lots of top-notch goods: cookbooks, workbooks - room on room of how-to-books for jocks (how to jog, how to box), books on pro sports: golf or polo. Old colophons on schoolbooks from schoolrooms sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both on worn morocco."
- Christian Bok, 'Eunoia'.
October 30, 2008