high-tech

Informal, hi-tech

[hahy-tek]

noun

1. high technology.

2. a style of interior design using industrial, commercial, and institutional fixtures, equipment, and materials, as metal warehouse shelving, factory lamps, and exposed pipes, or incorporating other elements having the stark, utilitarian appearance characteristic of industrial design.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or suggesting high technology.

high tech

noun

1. a variant spelling of hi tech

high-tech

¹

1. Short for “high technology”; the term describes industries and firms that use or produce advanced technology, especially in electronics.

high-tech

²

1. A descriptive term for industry heavily dependent on recent laboratory discoveries. Manufacturing computers is a typical high-tech industry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high tech¹

First recorded in 1970–75; by shortening

Example Sentences

They warn that the president’s frenetic rollouts of tariffs — only to walk some of them back — could harm the U.S. economy and jeopardize its future as a high tech hub.

From Los Angeles Times

Today, more than one-third of the 30 companies in the Dow industrials deal in finance, insurance or high tech and don’t make products that need to be physically transported.

From Los Angeles Times

For months now, California has been lagging behind the nation in job growth, with hiring weakness in major sectors such as high tech and entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times

Latinos struggle to obtain science and technology degrees from our public universities even though high tech is the homegrown industry providing most of the state’s livable wages.

From Los Angeles Times

Renishaw's high-precision measuring systems are used by companies that make aircraft and high tech bikes, medical and dental equipment and countless other products.

From BBC

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