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单词 top-calibre
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top-calibre
(a) Compounds of the adjective with nouns, chiefly used attributively, as in top-calibre, top-price, top-quality, top-rank, etc., (adjectives).See also top bracket adj., top class adj., top-end adj., top-grade adj., top-priority adj., etc.
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1823 Philanthropic Gaz. & Christian Reporter 13 Aug. 257/2 The top price Flour is 55s. per sack.
1886 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 4 Dec. 3/3 Top quality goods of all kinds going at the lowest prices from now until January 1.
1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. iii. xiii. 318 ‘Stakhanovites’, that is, top-efficiency workers.
1959 Times 29 Oct. 2/2 Position calls for top-calibre executive with experience of marketing.
1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 598/1 We have very few top-rate managers.
1972 J. Aiken Butterfly Picnic x. 190 [He] is doing forty years in a top-security prison for handing over state secrets.
1982 Lakeland Echo 18 Mar. 6/4 Special attention has been paid to acoustics and lighting so that really top-rank artistes can be persuaded to play there.
1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 232 The trial consists of top-standard cross-country, show jumping and dressage.
2004 Independent 19 Aug. (Review section) 16/1 (advt.) High quality, top value hardwood hangers—costing from as little as 65 pence each.
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