Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. (alternative spelling of bluechip English)
WordNet
adj. extremely valuable; "Rembrandt is considered a blue-chip artist"
Usage examples of "blue-chip".
She had blue-chip stocks, she had mutual funds, she had some workhorse stocks.
Actually, it was not an average at all, but the sum of the current market value of thirty blue-chip stocks, with Allied Signal on one end of the alphabet, Woolworth's on the other, and Merck in the middle.
The S&P 500 was actually up a fraction, as was NASDAQ, because the blue-chip companies had suffered more from general nerves than the smaller fry.
Social Conscience is up two and a third, Hearth and Home down a quarter but still your basic blue-chip stock.
To put it crudely, we paid for a blue-chip stock, and then at the end it turned black, and, for our purposes, worthless.
For a while last spring he appeared to be in conflict with the normally atavistic Board of Regents, which runs the university, but somewhere along the line a blue-chip compromise was reached, and whatever progressive ideas the Regents might have flirted with were lost in the summer lull.
The man who hired Ruben Salazar, former station director Joe Rank, considered him valuable enough to out-bid the blue-chip Los Angeles Times for the services of one of that paper's ranking stars -- so nobody argued when Salazar demanded absolute independence for his KMEX news operation.