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单词 heavy hitter
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Definition of heavy hitter in English:

heavy hitter

(also big hitter)
noun
informal
  • An important or powerful person.

    its membership includes many heavy hitters in the insurance industry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is no denying that Penman is an intuitive journalist with immense skills, but he remains unknown to the majority of big hitters in Scottish business.
    • Usually these are big hitters and we're looking at investors with €500,000 and upwards, ‘he said.’
    • Neither do we include Wall Street big hitters who spend time in London.
    • He said: ‘What I think is superb about this campaign is the big hitters of the industry in this town have signed up to it.’
    • Prince and Madonna topped the list of big hitters.
    • The trio are regarded as big hitters who would not have launched a fully-fledged PR business without having lined up a number of key corporate clients as a foundation for their business.
    • She euphemistically described him as ‘a straight talking, heavy hitter.’
    • Our various hosts sent along some pretty big hitters - directors, men from the ministry, men from the international department.
    • This was a year when the big hitters in the book industry paid vast sums for huge, often very self-important books which swiftly wound up in the remainder bins.
    • The focus will now switch to the other bidder still in the race, a consortium of venture capital companies headed by merchant banking heavy hitter Goldman Sachs.
    • As a swan song, he is playing Madison Square Garden in a career-canvassing concert that brings together almost every heavy hitter in the field of modern hip-hop.
    • Regional big hitters including business leaders, celebrities, sportsmen, the police and property developers have united behind the M.E.N. campaign to put the project back on track.
    • The bill lets politicians express solidarity with constituents who lost their jobs, without offending big hitters.
 
 

Definition of heavy hitter in US English:

heavy hitter

(also big hitter)
noun
informal
  • An important or powerful person.

    a high-profile national issue pitting heavy hitters in the Senate against the Department of Agriculture
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a swan song, he is playing Madison Square Garden in a career-canvassing concert that brings together almost every heavy hitter in the field of modern hip-hop.
    • He said: ‘What I think is superb about this campaign is the big hitters of the industry in this town have signed up to it.’
    • The trio are regarded as big hitters who would not have launched a fully-fledged PR business without having lined up a number of key corporate clients as a foundation for their business.
    • Prince and Madonna topped the list of big hitters.
    • She euphemistically described him as ‘a straight talking, heavy hitter.’
    • The bill lets politicians express solidarity with constituents who lost their jobs, without offending big hitters.
    • Usually these are big hitters and we're looking at investors with €500,000 and upwards, ‘he said.’
    • Regional big hitters including business leaders, celebrities, sportsmen, the police and property developers have united behind the M.E.N. campaign to put the project back on track.
    • The focus will now switch to the other bidder still in the race, a consortium of venture capital companies headed by merchant banking heavy hitter Goldman Sachs.
    • This was a year when the big hitters in the book industry paid vast sums for huge, often very self-important books which swiftly wound up in the remainder bins.
    • Our various hosts sent along some pretty big hitters - directors, men from the ministry, men from the international department.
    • There is no denying that Penman is an intuitive journalist with immense skills, but he remains unknown to the majority of big hitters in Scottish business.
    • Neither do we include Wall Street big hitters who spend time in London.
 
 
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