high-rise
Americanadjective
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(of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators.
a high-rise apartment complex.
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of, relating to, or characteristic of high-rise buildings.
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of or being a small-wheeled bicycle with high handlebars and a banana-shaped seat.
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(of pants) having a waistline placed at or above the navel, or at the natural waist.
high-rise chinos.
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of high-rise
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Following a round of particularly intense Russian barrages two years earlier, Biletsky had convinced his neighbours to chip in together to install solar panels and batteries on the roof of their high-rise apartment block.
From Barron's
The two had a romance in the postcard-perfect city, where high-rise condos climb hillsides as fishing boats bob off the coast—all framed by the Sierra Madre mountains.
Manchester has had a boom in high-rise blocks in recent years.
From BBC
I may not know exactly where my mother is living, but I can picture her writing fake postcards in some high-rise hotel room.
From Literature
After years of struggling to find white-collar tenants for a gleaming office high-rise on the edge of downtown, he has just begun converting its office space into close to 700 apartments.
From Los Angeles Times
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