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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
world-class
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a world-class orchestra
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was a world-class thinker, a right-brained adept.
▪ In Workplace 2000, every company will need world-class performance and continuous improvement to be successful.
▪ It gave Sandy inspiration, the confidence to win the Masters, knowing he was a world-class player.
▪ Moreover, the blind shots would send world-class players into revolt.
▪ They have all blossomed into world-class talents, and their counties have prospered with them.
▪ Whatever happened to all the talk about a world-class skills revolution?
▪ When the fighting broke out, Berlin had come almost from nowhere to become a world-class culture centre.
Wiktionary
world-class

a. 1 of a standard that ranks among the best in the world 2 of the highest order or importance

WordNet
world-class

adj. ranking above all others; "was first in her class"; "the foremost figure among marine artists"; "the top graduate" [syn: first, foremost]

Usage examples of "world-class".

The rumor is that they do some big-league industrial-materials theft, contract fraud, union scams, phantom hours, world-class featherbedding, drugs.

An especially grotesque form of pathological lying, named after Baron von Munchausen, the world-class prevaricator.

And in the payback department, the nats have handed us jokers a world-class IOU.

The world-class wisdom and quiet authority in that image could sell oil to Arabs, Amex cards in the Kremlin.

Wally was poor at gruntwork, but turned out to be world-class at thinking of easier ways to do things.

Today, thanks to the economic boom of the nagari restoration and the population explosion of the Archway era, Teluk Bayur was a fully improved port basin with world-class quays and mooring, a huge storage complex, and so many modern conveniences that even Jala eventually lost interest in tallying up all the tugs, sheds, cranes and loaders by tonnage.

I mean, extruding that bloody niobium-dysprosium wire for the tau-generator alone will call for world-class boffinry, to say nothing of refining the stuff from ores.

Her former business manager, who claimed Cleo once tried to run him over with a UPS truck, was quoted as saying, "She's a greedy, ruthless, world-class cunt, but I wish her only the best.

With his record, Rosen shouldn't even be clowning for a third-rate outfit, let alone a world-class circus like the Montero.

She had pushed me away and clapped her knees shut, had told me she was going away just when I was starting to not only want her around but need her around, she had left me with what was soon going to be a world-class case of blue balls .

I promised them to do a healing, I promised them to have some world-class bass fishing, and I promised to get their shining faces on national cable TV.

He worked among Trekkies and canoeing fanatics, an ex-CIA agent and a world-class glazer of chocolate truffles.

Most times, it was so difficult to remember that Kelsey Duffield was still a nine-year-old and not just a world-class, superintelligent, fully adult thinker.

She was Olympics material and was supposed to go to Russia for some trials but fell in love with a country-western singer named Tasha and gave up her chances to be recognized as a world-class athlete so she could be a go-fer for Tasha's band.

It got world-class body builders coming through now and then, there were fitness models who dropped by during photo shoots, and enough tourists so it was practically a license to steal.