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What is "sought-after"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sought-after
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sought-after destination (=place that people want to visit)
▪ the Himalayas, one of the world's most sought-after destinations
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ But the most sought-after smell - the one which women find irresistible - still eludes the experts.
▪ In some companies rank is measured in terms of floor space, and the most sought-after offices are those with large window space.
▪ Mary is the most sought-after saint in heaven.
▪ Carp and bream are among the most sought-after and a special target for poachers.
▪ But the most sought-after item of the day was the name plate that once adorned the publisher's desk.Simon Garrett reports.
much
▪ Proteins are also the target of nearly all drugs, so our protein inventory is a much sought-after prize in medicine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although there are many species of tropical waterlilies the hybrid types are usually more sought-after due to the outstanding blooms they produce.
▪ Carp and bream are among the most sought-after and a special target for poachers.
▪ From being a much sought-after residential area, it has lost its fashionable air.
▪ Geographers are well represented in industry, commerce, government and the professions, and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees.
▪ In this way, hallucinations can be an exciting and sought-after part of intoxication by solvents.
▪ Mary is the most sought-after saint in heaven.
▪ Proteins are also the target of nearly all drugs, so our protein inventory is a much sought-after prize in medicine.
▪ The Northern responded to three newspaper advertisements placed by people selling the sought-after vouchers and asked the selling price.
Wiktionary
sought-after

a. (context of something in short supply English) popular, desired, in demand

WordNet
sought-after

adj. being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum" [syn: sought, sought-after(a)]

Usage examples of "sought-after".

Takeovers get sloppy when the sought-after club seeks shark repellent and allies with other gangs to fight off the suitor.

The mature market has become one of the most sought-after by businesses with appropriate products and services, mostly because it is growing so rapidly.

Despite the authoritative sobriety of the Court of King Charles, Amelia was an extremely popular and sought-after figure, her title as the Countess of Landale giving her access to the Court.

His aeronautical engineering background and expertise in computers, systems design, and advanced systems design, along with his years as a B-52 bomber navigator-bombardier, had made him one of the most sought-after aviation project leaders in the world.

No wonder: he is one of the most sought-after ballroom dance instructors in Manila.

And yes, he can see Mary Jackson's pussy, that highly sought-after part of the female anatomy that was known, in those dim old junior high school days, as 'the bearded clam'.

Among those who could afford it, the garum of Lucius Claudius was a much sought-after, highly valuable commodity, the integrity of which he wished devoutly to safeguard.

He had learned their ways and got far better prices for their sought-after goods than the rich nabobs who cooled themselves in the lavish palaces they had erected in India.

After ten o'clock tomorrow morning the Quest will be the most sought-after ship in the Seven Seas.

She had done well in a course taught by a renowned Jewish professor, well enough to have been singled out by the sought-after teacher as the student he deemed to have achieved the most.