Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
high-power \high-power\ high-powered \high-powered\adj.
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vigorously energetic or forceful. high-powered executives
Syn: high-octane, high-voltage.
capable of a high degree of magnification; -- used of optical instruments such as microscopes or telescopes. a high-powered microscope
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Possessing great physical or political power 2 vigorous and energetic 3 (context of an optical instrument English) Capable of a large magnification
WordNet
adj. vigorously energetic or forceful; "a high-octane sales manager"; "a high-octane marketing plan"; "high-powered executives"; "a high-voltage theatrical entrepreneur" [syn: high-octane, high-power, high-voltage, high-energy]
(used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification; "a high-powered microscope"
Usage examples of "high-powered".
There were still some addax antelope down in the dunes, but mostly the local sheiks had sportingly shot them out, using high-powered rifles with telescopic sights from the backs of Land Rovers.
Kendrick then handed State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.
State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.
She was out of her depth here in Jumar where the very air seemed to smell of high-powered money and privilege, she thought bitterly.
The room was a high-powered gambling establishment which Skookum had started on the side.
Honolulu with its high-powered, missionary-owned bank buildings and its shanty Japanese-language movie just off Aala Park, a polygenetic blend nobody, least of all Violet, could encompass.
It is normally tetravalent, and is used in transistors, high-powered photoelectric eyes, and, with silicon, in lenses for infrared equipment.
No doubt he was wondering where a low-budget hauler like Trilby Elliot would meet up with a high-powered politician.
A reporter who had been scanning the seas below with high-powered binoculars came back from the angled plateglass observation windows and slumped in a front-row seat.
From behind them came a sudden explosion, as sharp and limber as that first high-powered rifleshot but far louder.
At one time there were not enough radium or high-powered Xray machines to go around, to treat the numerous sufferers from tumors and cancers of various forms.
And how much longer will we have to wait before some high-powered shark with a fistful of answers will finally bring us face-to-face with the ugly question that is already so close to the surface in this country, that sooner or later even politicians will have to cope with it?
The intercept antennas were able to pick up signals from Soviet high-powered radars well over the horizon as they bounced off the missiles.
It was an outfit full of slits and apertures, dynamic evening wear, extremely high-powered, rich in fetish content, and he found himself wishing to see her dressed in this ultraseductive apparel, aware of the irony of his desire, backing into the totally serene confusion of it all, the inverted fundamentalism of maleness allowed its answered prayer.
Ogle was just in the process of computerizing his whole operation, buying big high-powered Calyx workstations from Pacific Netware, and those unsightly holes in the plaster made installation a snap.