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high-rise | American Dictionary

high-rise
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑɪˌrɑɪz/
a tall, modern building with a lot of floors

high-rise | Business English

high-rise
adjective[ only before noun ]
 PROPERTYuk /ˈhaɪˌraɪz/us
used to describe a tall modern building with a lot of levels:
a high-rise apartment/flat/hotel
high-rise
noun[ C ]
ukus
a tall modern building with a lot of levels:
It's the first of a wave of ultra-tall high-rises expected to remake the city landscape.

Examples of high-rise

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The architect also wanted to design high-rise apartments, where each resident could own a 'piece of green' and a 'house' in the sky.
The city pursued parallel programmes of building high-rise flats both in the central areas on slum cleared land and in its suburbs on greenfield sites.
The emphasis is on designs for commercial and high-rise buildings.
Does this study suggest further lines of investigation in relation to social and environmental sustainability in high-rise housing?
Crowded housing, the sewage system, and such dubious practices as spitting and throwing rubbish out of high-rise apartment buildings came under the spotlight.
The monumental buildings were demolished and made room for luxurious high-rise apartment blocks.
The project comprises two high-rise buildings on the sea-front of a large city.
It established the notion that high-rise building was not the outcome of land shortage, but of particular relationships between site and building volume.
The flow of questions followed mainly the problems that might arise as a result of erecting a high-rise building.
Only three buildings exceeded 10 metres in height and, although less than 40 metres, they were considered to be high-rise buildings at the time.
There is still much to study if there is to be any chance of skybridges becoming a reality in high-rise design.
During the 1980s only four high-rise buildings were built, varying in height from 30 to 50 metres.
Some buildings are built very high, and we call them high-rise buildings.
Adaptations were required in an area where the residents have come to terms with high-rise living and the local 'atrocious beauty'.
Low-rise houses, however, being substantially cheaper to build than high-rise.
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