high-flying

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high-flying

Rhymes with -aɪɪŋ

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From high + flying.

adjective more high-flying · most high-flying · highflying

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.

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@misc{high_flying_2026,
  title = {high-flying},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/high-flying},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}