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highflier

Or high-fli·er,

[hahy-flahy-er]

noun

  1. a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.

  2. a person or thing that flies high.

  3. a stock, often speculative, whose price moves up or down widely.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of highflier1

First recorded in 1680–90; high + flier
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Example Sentences

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Many of these are recent highfliers with distant visions of profits.

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Repeated interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve exposed the poor bets and hubris of regional highfliers like Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic.

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The Wall Street Journal outlined some of the most striking examples of what happened to the onetime highflier:

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I remember back in ’99, the highfliers were Cisco and Sun.

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Companies can remain in that condition indefinitely, but more often than not, gravity has proven to be a harsh mistress to highfliers, and the trigger for a drastic revaluation can come from anywhere.

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