high-flying

English

Alternative forms

• highflying

Etymology

From high +‎ flying.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪɪŋ

Adjective

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

1. Characteristic of a highflier; extravagant in conduct or opinion.
   • 2013 June 23, Katy Guest, “Polly Courtney interview: The voice of the recession generation”, in The Independent‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

extravagant in conduct or opinion

• Finnish: korkealentoinen (fi)
• Polish: ambitny (pl), zawrotny (pl)