high-flying

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From high +‎ flying.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective

high-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)

  1. Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
    • 2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent‎[1]:
      As a bright young engineering graduate in the early 2000s she worked for a year as a "high-flying" analyst at Merrill Lynch, before she quit in disgust to write a novel based on the experience.

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