high-grade

[ hahy-greyd ]
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adjective
  1. of excellent or superior quality.

  2. (of ore) yielding a relatively large amount of the metal for which it is mined.

verb (used with object),high-grad·ed, high-grad·ing.
  1. to steal (rich ore) from a mine.

Origin of high-grade

1
First recorded in 1875–80

Other words from high-grade

  • high-grader, noun

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