Usually means: Ambitious individual achieving significant success.
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  1. high-flyer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. high-flyer, high-flyer: Collins English Dictionary
  3. high-flyer: Wordnik
  4. high-flyer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. high-flyer: Wiktionary
  6. high-flyer: Dictionary.com
  7. high-flyer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. high-flyer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  Alternative form of highflier [A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.]

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