high-poweradj.

1849 Rep. Select Comm. Contract Packet Service 16 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 571) XII. 1 When you run with such high-power engines in proportion to the size of the vessel, the expenditure is in proportion increased.

1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes i. 2 A crack in one of his own high-power lenses.

1908 Science 11 Dec. 822/2 The effective range of the modern high-power gun is now about five miles.

1956 B.B.C. Handbk. 1957 59 Thirty-nine high-power, short-wave transmitters..radiate the BBC's External Services programmes.

2009 D. Sperling & D. Gordon Two Billion Cars ix. 283 Improvements in the fuel economy of high-end, high-power cars and SUVs.

1906 Field & Stream 3 Feb. 172/2 The ‘hog law’ of Florida is a..high power affair.

1917 Los Angeles Times 30 Apr. ii. 4/8 Polly Moran, queen of the jazz comediennes, is the high-power fun maker who keeps things moving at the rate of a million laughs a minute.

1922 Sales Managem. Mar. 220/1 (advt.) A high-power salesman with a demonstrated ability as a manager and trainer of other salesmen.

1946 Antiques Oct. 239/1 The battle between high-power advertising and exasperated sales-resistance was not yet pitched.

2000 J. Lorber in M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson Gendered Society Reader 284 It could be that men feel their profession will..become feminized if too many women are in high-paid, high-prestige, and high-power positions.