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high-powered Adjective 1. (of machinery or equipment) powerful, advanced, and sophisticated 2. important, successful, or influential: a high-powered business contact
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high-powered adjective dynamic, driving, powerful, enterprising, effective, go-ahead, aggressive, vigorous, energetic, forceful, fast-track, go-getting (informal) high-octane (informal) highly capable Translations high-powered [ˈhaɪˈpauəd] adj [engine] → performant(e) (fig) [person] → dynamique: [job, businessman] → très important(e) high-powered [ˈhaɪˈpauəd] high adj (engine) → Hochleistungs-; (job) → Spitzen-; (businessman) → dynamisch; (course) → anspruchsvoll How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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His high-powered rifle was equipped with telescope sights and he also carried binoculars which he was in the act of using as Tarzan discovered him, either to note the effect of his last shot or to discover a new target. I should have liked to have spoken with them, but I did not care to risk having to use my high-powered rifle upon them other than in the last extremity. Blunt-bodied drones whizzed to and fro with a noise like miniature high-powered automobiles, as if anxious to convey the idea of being tremendously busy without going to the length of doing any actual work. |
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