Meanings
adjectivehigh-flying (comparative more high-flying, superlative most high-flying)
comparative more high-flying · superlative most high-flying · alternative highflying
- Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
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.
2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent
Origin
Translations
Finnish korkealentoinen
- korkealentoinenextravagant in conduct or opinion
Polish ambitny, zawrotny
- ambitnyextravagant in conduct or opinion
- zawrotnyextravagant in conduct or opinion
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with high-flying
tryingbuyingflyingapplyingdyinglyingcryingdryingdenyingspyingtyingcomplyingimplyingfryingdyeingdefyingvyingundyingpryingsighingplyingscryingdecryingretrying
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