Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Rising to a great height.
- adj. Unusually extravagant, affected, or ambitious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Extravagant in conduct, aims, or pretensions; having lofty notions; going or carried to extremes.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characteristic of a highflier
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Extravagant in opinions or ambition.
- adj. Flying at a high altitude; -- of airplanes.
- adj. Having an excessively high cost or perceived value; temporarily very successful; -- of objects with respect to a market and people in their occupations.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
- adj. moving upward or along at a considerable height
Examples
“Well! I shall see big Davey, perhaps, but don't you think 'highflying' would suit me better, although I know little about it?”
“John Chambers , the veteran chief executive of Cisco Systems Inc., confessed the once highflying technology company has lost its focus, lacks discipline and needs to overhaul its operations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Chambers Vows 'Fix' as Cisco Stumbles
“When Enron collapsed and the dotcom bust eliminated some highflying trading platforms, ICE saw its business boom.”
The Wall Street Journal: ICE Provides Power for Nasdaq's Bid
“STOCKHOLM — With Sweden's central bank set to keep pushing interest rates higher, the country's exporters are growing nervous that their already highflying currency will rise too high for their comfort.”
The Wall Street Journal: Swedish Exporters Brace for Krona's Rise
“A group of commercial real-estate heavyweights that made a big play on the distressed market earlier this year by buying into LNR Property Corp. has now tapped two executives who helped run Deutsche Bank AG's highflying commercial-property business, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“Meanwhile, the rout in commodities and jitters about global growth have killed investor appetite for formerly highflying currencies like the Australian and Canadian dollars.”
The Wall Street Journal: Rising Dollar: Headwind for U.S. Growth
“That said, surging demand for the latest batch of highflying tech companies combined with a limited supply of shares tend to prompt soaring valuations.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tech IPOs Take Low-Float Tack. A High-Risk Move?
“For highflying technology companies, a "low float" strategy is becoming a common theme, but it has also fueled some observers' concerns of another tech-stock bubble.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tech IPOs Take Low-Float Tack. A High-Risk Move?
“Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn , of Greenlight Capital Inc., has pushed to deflate the highflying shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., criticizing them recently at a prominent investor gathering.”
“After an NFL season that celebrated highflying offenses and cartoonish statistics, this would be a day of defense, and hoping for a sudden opportunity.”
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