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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
high-tech
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
company
▪ C., lobby with links to high-tech companies.
▪ Voters also defeated Proposition 201, a complicated measure aimed at restricting shareholder lawsuits, which have plagued Silicon Valley high-tech companies.
▪ Indeed, even amid the rout, some bellwether high-tech companies continue to report strong results.
▪ Jones, 58, has started several high-tech companies in the Pittsburgh area over the past decade.
▪ Even some high-tech companies had a hard time.
▪ Silicon Valley computer firms and other high-tech companies have been hit hard by the lawsuits.
equipment
▪ The high-tech equipment for these two rooms includes automatic black-out screens, to cover the huge windows during presentations.
▪ All require experts to care for the high-tech equipment while at sea.
▪ He has invested in the high-tech equipment necessary to properly perform and still be a leader in speed and cost.
firm
▪ To pay for civic amenities, city hall is wooing clean, high-tech firms.
industry
▪ Recently, however, investors have been shifting into high-tech industry and property development, which demand more capital.
▪ On the plus side of the ledger, several economists said Texas' growing high-tech industries would keep on growing.
▪ In fact, the United States is ahead of ever one in most high-tech industries, from software to biotech.
▪ Does southern Alameda County identify with Silicon Valley because of a spillover of the hot high-tech industries?
▪ But the focus Monday was economics and the effect that the Republican program would have on the high-tech industry.
▪ The high-tech industry, for example, is loaded with jargon.
▪ Although sparsely populated, the country offers foreign travelers everything from historical monuments and castles to authentic saunas and high-tech industry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But post-modern war has no need of politics, or states, or disciplined armies, or high-tech weapons.
▪ In ultra-sophisticated black, the Moffat Discovery becomes the high-tech feature in the very latest kitchen designs.
▪ Indeed, even amid the rout, some bellwether high-tech companies continue to report strong results.
▪ Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had, to a great extent, succeeded.
▪ On the plus side of the ledger, several economists said Texas' growing high-tech industries would keep on growing.
▪ The questionable nature of the high-tech goal has been challenged in another significant way in recent years.
▪ The Royal Navy's base in Portsmouth, and a cluster of high-tech defence firms, had helped keep south Hampshire prosperous.
Wiktionary
high-tech

a. (alternative spelling of hi-tech English)

WordNet
high-tech

adj. resembling or making use of highly advanced technology or devices [syn: hi-tech] [ant: low-tech]

Usage examples of "high-tech".

He forcibly turned his attention to the brilliantly illuminated wall of lights, cut crystal, stained aerogel, mirrors, and high-tech circuitry which constituted the bar.

Ruby comes in on Mondays with her warrior cohort and attacks the coffeehouse with an assortment of high-tech blasting gear that would whack Godzilla into submission: those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

There were a few high-tech looking gadgets cluttered about but not much else, except for Fora, who was sitting in the middle of the room at a huge grand piano.

But high-tech hexes had long ago rigged intercoms among them all, and it was here that senior ambassadors with translators could conduct interhex business, try and keep the peace, deal with common problems, work out trade negotiations and the like.

It will be longer and more dangerous than the direct route, but it will keep us basically in high-tech and semitech hexes so the breathing apparatus and life-support systems tailored for this mission will operate.

In pursuit of the scattered high-tech investments of Kapor Enterprises Inc.

Like their nineteenth-century spiritual ancestors, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, the high-tech computer entrepreneurs of the 1970s and 1980s -- people such as Wozniak, Jobs, Kapor, Gates, and H.

T-shirt was made of a high-tech high-density microfiber material, uncommon outside of Manticore and a few Sollie systems, that absorbed much of the blow from the light-weight needles and stubbornly resisted penetration.

CAT scan, another spinal, and all the high-tech neuroradiology video games, on the chance she had some kind of brain tumor.

Wal-Mart is able to roll back prices because of the new efficiencies continuously being created by its high-tech distribution system, which minutely tracks everything from power tools to pretzels as they travel from supplier to distribution center to store at a pace no other retailer can match.

As an ever-increasing number of prospective students were wooed by high-tech careers in biochemistry and genetics, the shortage of classically trained archivists, taxonomists, and systematists big-picture researchers was in danger of undermining the entire foundation of biological science.

Montoya, a self-taught technophile, had created a totally mobile and wonderfully high-tech office for himself that was usually based in his departmental Crown Victoria.

Pudge had really done a number on it, and that combined with the high-tech security he had installed to keep his office theftproof were working against him.

It was, after all, common for prominent high-tech entrepreneurs to drop from view, after they had made their fortunes.

The alloys and high-tech materials that the founders brought with them from Earth rotted away within months.