heavyweight

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heav·y·weight /ˈheviweɪt/ noun [countableC]

1 IMPORTANTsomeone or something that is very important or has a lot of influence 重量级人物，有影响力的人物[事物]，要人

one of the heavyweights of the movie industry

电影业巨子之一

2. DSOa boxer who weighs more than 91 kilograms, and who belongs to the heaviest weight class of boxers 重量级拳击手〔体重在86.18公斤以下，属于最重的级别〕

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heavyweight• He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer.• I am over six foot tall and a former heavyweight boxing champion.• Intellectual heavyweights will be debating what is one of the most important issues or our time.• He was compared to Proust and other literary heavyweights.• political heavyweights• And just as with the customs men of Miyako, the large, square heavyweights were like children on a holiday.• Pham Van Dong, perspiring as the heavyweights encircled him, now accepted a partition at the sixteenth parallel.• In terms of image the heavyweights are the heavyweights.• He was a thug when he came off the streets with explosive fists to become the youngest heavyweight champ ever.

From Longman Business Dictionary

heavyweightheav·y·weight /ˈheviweɪt/ noun [countableC]

a person or organization with a lot of influence and power

The law firm represents several industry heavyweights.

—heavyweight adjectiveadj [only before a noun]

one of the agency’s heavyweight clients

heav·y·weight noun

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