HIGH-RISE Definition & Meaning

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high-rise

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adjective

(of a building) having a comparatively large number of stories and equipped with elevators:
a high-rise apartment complex.
of, relating to, or characteristic of high-rise buildings.
of or being a small-wheeled bicycle with high handlebars and a banana-shaped seat.
(of pants) having a waistline placed at or above the navel, or at the natural waist:
high-rise chinos.

noun

Also high rise, a high-rise apartment or office building.

high-rise

adjective

1. prenominal of or relating to a building that has many storeys, esp one used for flats or offices Compare low-rise
  a high-rise block
2. ( as noun )
  a high-rise in Atlanta

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of high-rise¹

First recorded in 1950–55

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Structural beams, columns and slabs held up, despite extreme shaking and swaying of some high-rises.

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The death toll has risen to 18 people in the Thai capital, Bangkok, where 76 workers are still missing following the collapse of a high-rise building that had been under construction.

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At least 81 construction workers are missing after an unfinished high-rise building collapsed hundreds of miles away in Bangkok, according to Thailand's deputy prime minister.

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Eighty-one construction workers are missing after an unfinished high-rise building collapsed hundreds of miles away from the epicentre, in the Thai capital Bangkok.

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This decision is one of the best things about “Holland,” which brims with recently retro production design in Windows desktop computers, early cell phones and pagers, tapes rented from video stores and high-rise dad jeans.

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