high-flyer
Britishnoun
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a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc
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a person of great ability, esp in a career
Example Sentences
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Sanju Pal was a high-flyer - ambitious and successful, she won the Asian Woman of Achievement Award, met the late Queen Elizabeth, had been invited to 10 Downing Street, and had a job as a management consultant with City firm Accenture.
From BBC
At her six-month review, and after almost 10 years as a high-flyer in her job, she was told she would not make her performance target.
From BBC
Metropolitan Hilarion was for many years a high-flyer in the Church and seen as likely successor to Patriarch Kirill.
From BBC
The young high-flyer and his equally-talented little sister Ariel, 11, have been tutored by their older siblings Clara and Juliana, who are both students at Imperial.
From BBC
In 2016 he founded the hedge fund High-Flyer, which quickly became one of China’s wealthiest investment houses thanks to Liang and Co.’s intensive use of A.I. models for optimizing trades.
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