highflier

suomi-englanti sanakirja

highflier englannista suomeksi

  1. menestyjä

  1. Substantiivi

highflier englanniksi

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

  2. An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.

  3. (quote-book)

  4. (quote-journal)

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

  6. A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.

  7. {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Larry Williams|title=The Right Stock at the Right Time|page=93

  8. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=George Angell|title=Small Stocks for Big Profits

  9. A swingboat.

  10. (quote-journal) 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!

  11. (quote-journal) 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, (..)

  12. A writer of letters.

  13. A type of phaeton carriage.