highflying

or high-fly·ing

[ hahy-flahy-ing ]

/ ˈhaɪˈflaɪ ɪŋ /

adjective

moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.

extravagant or extreme in aims, opinions, etc.; unduly lofty: highflying ideas about life.

having a high cost or perceived value: the highflying glamour stocks.

Nearby words

highest common factor, highest intercostal vein, highet, highfalutin, highflier, highflying, highhole, highjack, highjacker, highland, highland cattle

Origin of highflying

First recorded in 1575–85; high + flying

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Examples from the Web for high-flying

For a high-flying financier gone bad, faking your own death is a tempting escape from legal woes.
First Rule of the Fake Dead Bankers Club: Stay Gone|Daniel Gross|January 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The once high-flying company, which saw sales fall sharply in 2009, is finding it difficult to mimic its early-stage growth.
Crocs Stock Falls on Critical Research Report|Edward Ferguson|August 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Not from high-flying trading or investment banking, but from a boring, stodgy business: lending money to homeowners.
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Homeowners Profit With Help From the Fed|Matthew Zeitlin|October 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But the plan misfired, and when Laura found herself on her own at college, her high-flying life went into a nosedive.
Laura Johnson, London’s Poor Little Rich Rioter, Awaits Sentencing|Peter Popham|April 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST

After his high-flying student years at Karachi University, he worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.
Their Man in Washington|John Barry|October 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Well, all I remember thinking is that the high-flying June bug would get away, or that some other scientist would capture him.
The Motor Boys Over the Ocean|Clarence Young
The tumbling habit was gradually bred out of the high-flying birds, and after a time many of them did not tumble at all.
Our Domestic Birds|John H. Robinson
Toward dawn, the birds began, high-flying parrots and then the garden orioles.
When the Owl Cries|Paul Bartlett
You know very well, the great business of the high-flying Whigs, at this juncture, is to endeavour a repeal of the test clause.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. VII|Jonathan Swift
And some few are so honest that they pass by as harmlessly as a wedge of high-flying wild duck.
Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4|Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for high-flying

high-flying

adjective

having great ambition or ability

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highflying

or high-fly·ing

adjective

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high-flying

adjective