2 of the best quality or at the highest level:
He wasn't considered a top-flight manager.
4 the group that contains the most successful organizations, teams, etc.:
The company is struggling to remain in the top flight
We should produce more and more top-flight scientists and technologists so that we do not need the numbers because we have the quality.
How on earth can twelve scientists, even top-flight ones, seriously cover the whole field of modern technologies, alongside their main activity?
That is worked out by top-flight civil servants.
Anyone who aspires to be at the top-flight end of international competition must be in a high state of training.
I am not referring exclusively to top-flight directors or well qualified people who can take their expertise abroad.
That difficulty needs to be addressed if we are to attract top-flight consultants and maintain a first-class service.
Those facilities are as important for the top-flight clubs as they are for schools.
These chosen institutions, it seems to me, should also play a major part in the continuing education of top-flight engineers, through short courses and collaborative research.
