highflyer
- n a person of great ability and ambition
- A dotcom highflyer that came perilously close to crashing on Wall Street in 2001, Amazon is up once againthanks to Bezos.
- But Luo's firm shut down in January, and now the former highflyer penny-pinches on $2 lunches, rides the bus instead of driving and is looking for a new job in a technology sector .
- The most glamorous highflyer to fall so far: Liu Xiaoqing, a movie star who allegedly owes the government more than $1.