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highflying

highflying is the alternative form of high-flying.

Meaning of high-flying

Adjective

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

  1. 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

Forms of highflying

comparativemore highflying
superlativemost highflying

Questions about highflying

What is highflying the alternative form of?
Highflying is the alternative form of high-flying.

Words near highflying in the dictionary

  1. Highfills
  2. highflier
  3. highfliers
  4. highflyer
  5. highflyers
  6. highflying
  7. highgate
  8. Highgate Center
  9. Highgate resin
  10. highgates
  11. Highgrove

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