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ˈhigh-powered, a.
[high a. 22 b.]
Having great power or drive (lit. and fig.); forceful, energetic; of good or high quality.
1903Daily Chron. 1 Aug. 3/7 High-priced, high-powered cars. 1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings p. xv, Modern two-seaters, high-powered, fast, and reliable. 1928Daily Mail 16 Aug. 19/4 This class of fraud does not require so many high-powered salesmen as the old method of selling by personal canvas. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock ii. 51 Does the whole world stray in high-powered cars on a by-pass way? 1936Amer. Scholar V. 83 The schools are failing, with all their high-powered modern pedagogy. 1944Living off Land v. 114 High-powered microscopes. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 724/2 American motor⁓cars that are always ‘high-powered’. 1958Engineering 14 Mar. 336/1 Automatic train control was developed..early this century..and, in 1920, a high-powered committee..recommended its general adoption on all British railway lines. 1958Spectator 25 July 138/1 High-powered promotion men. 1960News Chron. 18 Mar. 6/4 The National Executive should..set up a high-powered inquiry into those industries which have already been nationalised. 1969Daily Tel. 5 Feb. 15/1 The girl graduate, however high-powered her degree, is very often unemployable. |