highflier

/haɪˈflaɪə(ɹ)/

noun

A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations. / (idiomatic) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

She is a highflier in the business world.

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意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

under the appellations of Tory, Jacobite, highflier, and other cant words

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意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.

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意味（5）

A swingboat.

[…] 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!

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