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/haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)/ · noun
A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations..
under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words
A beautiful woman juggled expensive shopping bags while taking a call; friends gathered clinking glasses in celebration; a young man coyly slurped noodles; a gaggle of suited highfliers shook hands over a boardroom with views across the city. Everything screamed: “We are no longer in recession! We are a beating heart of London’s future!”
Virtually all highfliers that I have seen over all these years of trading have crumbled at some point.
I like Canadian stocks and have done quite well investing in them, but you are typically better off buying a stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's leading exchange, than some of the highfliers in Vancouver.
[…] and high-flyer boat-swings, full of half-drunken men and half-mad, screaming girls, swing up to perilous heights, and all but whirl over, as if to shoot out the whole of their frantic cargoes!
A small copper-plate representation of Frost Fair […] Among the activities shown are Letterpress Printing, Copperplate Printing, a Sheep to be roasted, Ballad Singers, Swinging (in boat-shaped swings called the 'high Flyer'), playing at Skittles, […]
The emotions of those who journeyed for the first time on a railway at a speed four times as great as that of the swiftest High-flier that ever devoured the road are forgotten by this generation.
Use high flier when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
High flier means A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations..
Common synonyms include highflyer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words
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