Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who rises quickly to a position of wealth or success.
- noun A stock that sells at a high valuation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A phaëton with low front wheels, arched reaches, and boxes over both axles.
- noun A bird that flies to a great height; hence, one who is extravagant or goes to extremes in his aims, actions, or pretensions: sometimes applied in England to a genteel beggar.
- noun One of certain geometrid moths: an English collector’ name. The ruddy high-flier is Ypsipetes ruberata; the July high-flier is Y. elutata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting.
- noun a person of great ability and ambition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high
elevations . - noun idiomatic An
ambitious person, especially one who takesrisks or has anextravagant lifestyle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of great ability and ambition
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Examples
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Twitter became an online highflier by letting users post 140-character messages that people started calling "tweets."
Fowl Language: Companies Squawk About Who Gets 'Tweet' Justin Scheck 2011
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Both ReachLocal and OpenTable—like another former highflier, Netflix —are hoping that growth overseas will now help them drive sales.
No Groupon Therapy for Web Stars Rolfe Winkler 2011
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In 1997 he hired AT&T highflier Joe Nacchio, who by 2000 had taken Qwest from 4,500 miles of fiber to 18,000 miles, an IPO and a $40 billion takeover of baby bell US West.
The Man Behind the Curtain Christopher Helman 2010
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The effort is the latest by Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz to jumpstart revenue growth at the onetime highflier.
Yahoo Prepares New Web Ad Push Amir Efrati 2011
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Mr. Silverstein also has his eye on Sycamore Networks Inc., a former highflier that has been struggling to recover since its fall but has been buffered by large holdings of cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet.
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He said "no one could stop me when I was in the air" and there seemed to be little doubt he would be a highflier in the NBA.
A Knick Recasts His Game Kevin Clark 2010
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Perhaps more shocking is the poor performance handed in by the state capital, Sacramento, a former highflier (now mired at No. 54) and San Diego, a high-tech haven with a near perfect climate (No. 48).
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Perhaps more shocking is the poor performance handed in by the state capital, Sacramento, a former highflier (now mired at No. 54) and San Diego, a high-tech haven with a near perfect climate (No. 48).
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Perhaps more shocking is the poor performance handed in by the state capital, Sacramento, a former highflier (now mired at No. 54) and San Diego, a high-tech haven with a near perfect climate (No. 48).
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Perhaps more shocking is the poor performance handed in by the state capital, Sacramento, a former highflier (now mired at No. 54) and San Diego, a high-tech haven with a near perfect climate (No. 48).
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