Highflier

Word HIGHFLIER
Character 9
Hyphenation high fli er
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Definitions and meanings of "Highflier"

What do we mean by highflier?

One who rises quickly to a position of wealth or success. noun

A stock that sells at a high valuation. 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. noun

One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting. noun

A person of great ability and ambition. noun

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations. noun

An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle. noun

A person of great ability and ambition noun

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.

An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.

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The word "highflier" in example sentences

Twitter became an online highflier by letting users post 140-character messages that people started calling "tweets." ❋ Justin Scheck (2011)

Both ReachLocal and OpenTable—like another former highflier, Netflix —are hoping that growth overseas will now help them drive sales. ❋ Rolfe Winkler (2011)

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. ❋ Christopher Helman (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Kevin Clark (2010)

The effort is the latest by Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz to jumpstart revenue growth at the onetime highflier. ❋ Amir Efrati (2011)

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). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Investment banking is the third career at which the 50-year-old has proved to be a highflier. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Friday 's report may not be a highflier, but may be the start of better things to come. ❋ Kelly Evans (2010)

In addition to Bobby, Terry, and Jerry, our team also featured Waliyy Dixon, this highflier from Linden, who ended up making a name for himself on one of those AND1 teams—the street-basketball league, which was a blend of hip-hop, the Harlem Globetrotters, WWE, and the NBA. ❋ Luther Wright (2010)

Hong Kong's richest man and an owner of local institutions ranging from supermarkets to property to utilities -- has been grappling with what to do with PCCW for much of the past decade and tried unsuccessfully to sell all or part of the company three times since its days as a dot-com highflier nine years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dan Dolan, product manager for the Select Sector SPDRs line of ETFs at ALPS Distributors, said buying the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF isn't about finding the latest highflier that will double overnight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prior to that, he tried and failed three times to sell his holdings in PCCW, a former market highflier that had traded above HK$100 during the tech-stock bubble in 2000. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Core businesses of the onetime highflier continued to drag because of product flaws and safety issues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ms. Stein, 41 years old, advised investors to sell the stock late in 2007, because she was concerned that investors were overvaluing Corinthian due to expectations that it would be the next DeVry Inc., the parent of the DeVry University college campuses, which has been a highflier in recent years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The outdoor-advertising business, long a highflier, also has stumbled into a rough patch as the overall advertising market slows. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A onetime highflier, Vignette makes software used to build and manage Web sites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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